Playing The Heartless

Ruthless, unstoppable, cold, and uncaring. The Heartless

has lost their heart, with all the emotional disconnect
that entails. They are untouchable, invincible, and so, so
lonely..

The Heartless always has Cold 2, because they are

fearless and without mercy. The different stats slant
them towards either being sexy in their isolation, or a
brooding and creepy figure.

In My Hand makes you impossible to kill unless someone

has your heart, but doesn’t prevent you from Skirting
Death. If you Skirt Death and can’t die, you must pick one
of the other options. Your heart also doesn’t have to be
literal; if you aren’t supernatural, a symbolic
representation will do just as well.

I Only Want To Hurt You allows you to force someone into

their Darkest Self when they come to you for help. This
is a very dangerous and scary move, not just for the
person who you use it on, but also for you. Take care
using it.

Credits
This is a fan Skin for Monsterhearts 2, designed by C.M.Ruebsaat
Check out the game at buriedwithoutceremony.com
The Heartless
It’s better to not care, and you don’t need to anymore. You got rid of your
heart; nothing beats within your chest now, nothing pumps your dense,
heavy blood through your veins. Nothing makes you care so much, like you
used to.
Nobody can hurt you when you’re heartless.
Identity
Name: Laila, Jason, Riviere,
Alliston, Grace, Aur, Karmina,
Senna, Delane, Felicity, Pearson
Look: superior, cold, distant, quiet, Origin: lich, clockwork chest, mad
furious.
Your Backstory
Someone has your heart. They
take 2 Strings on you.
Someone cares what you think.
Take a String on them.
Heartless Moves
Eyes: dead eyes, sadistic eyes, You get In My Hand, and choose one
shattered eyes, false eyes, desperate more.
eyes
● In My Hand
Your heart isn’t inside you,
experiment, ice queen, emotionally although it does exist. Anyone
repressed. who holds your heart adds 1 to all
rolls against you. You can only be
killed by whoever holds your
Strings heart, although you can always
Skirt Death. You always know who
holds your heart.
❍ I Only Want To Hurt You
When someone comes to you for
help and you reject them, you can
spend all Strings on them to force
them into their Darkest Self.
❍ Icy Cold
When you let someone know you
don’t care about them and they
keep trying anyway, take a String
on them and they mark
experience.
❍ Nerves of Steel
When you have to Keep Your Cool
because of someone else, take 1
Forward to the roll as long as they
aren’t holding your heart.
❍ Heartless Words
When you take advantage of a
Condition to Shut Someone Down,
add 2 to your roll instead of 1

❍ Perpetual Motion Machine

Darkest Self
Even someone without a heart
has to care about something. You
can’t keep bottling up your
feelings like this. You have to find
someone who makes you feel
and get them under your control
- get your heart back. Escape
your Darkest Self when you get
rid of whatever you care about
or have a complete breakdown in
front of someone.
When someone makes you Skirt
Harm Death, take a String on them and
mark experience. Until you have
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍ no Strings on them, they deal you
1 less harm.
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Heartless move.
❍ Take another Heartless move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You are followed by Persistent Admiriers
Conditions

Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, ask them if they think
you like them. If they say yes, take a String on them. If
they say anything else, take +1 Forward against them and
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Move take a Condition,.
Sex Move
After you have sex with someone, tell
them about your secret weakness or a
peaceful time you shared with one of
your siblings. They tell you about their
relationship with death.
Darkest Self
Treason. You've just this instant
put the pieces together, and not a
moment too soon. There are those
who've feigned kindness to you, and
you've even let your guard down a
little - but they didn't count on your
survivor's instinct. Quickly, cleverly,
before they can retreat or mount their
defenses, you must strike them down
unerringly. You escape your Darkest
Self when your paranoia is revealed to
be unfounded, or when you push away
everyone who cares about you.
Advancement
 Take another Heir move.
 Take another Heir move.
 Create a new Birthright (MC
approval) and agree who it's in.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You've met your
Extended Family.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
This Skin written by Jackson Tegu for:
Monsterhearts Second Skins
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Playing The Heir
Scared, conflicted, desperate, violent.
The Heir is about terrible sibling
rivalry and unreasonable parental
expectations. They come freighted
with some heavy issues, and require
a mature outlook to play well -
mechanically, it's not a Skin for first-
time players, and nor is it structured
for single-session games.
To keep the age differences fresh in
everyone's minds, always say your
siblings' ages after their names.
When you make your siblings at the
start, don't go into detail. Just give us
their names and ages, and a glimpse of
what one or two look like. The rest can
be discovered later through play. For
your sex move, feel free to make up
new stuff about your siblings.
When you transfer death to one of
your siblings using Old Family Friend,
the MC chooses which sibling is
taken by death in your stead. See the
Player Reference Sheet for info about
avoiding death - something you can't
do. Incidentally, you can never gain the
Ghoul move Short Rest for the Wicked.
It's your choice whether you tell
the other players about your secret
weakness or not. Either is fine.
The Condition like a brother to me isn't
only for use on boys, and like a sister to
me isn't only for use on girls.
In Or Else, the flashback is a mini-scene
between you and that blood sibling,
just long enough for you to tell them
what to do in this situation. Or Else
can't automatically interrupt other
moves. The phrase "blood siblings"
here means "can't be used on PCs."
Other PCs can't get Birthrights. They're
yours alone.
Your family has strong traditions. You've
heard stories about your aunts and uncles:
some of the stories remind you of you and
your siblings. You all have these little gifts.
Maybe your parents even have a speech
about it. One's gifts should be used,
they say. And if one's inheritance isn't
appreciated, it should be seized instead
by someone more able to see the value.
Someone more fit for success in
the Real World.
They have an expectation that, by
adulthood, you'll be an only child.
Either that or one of your siblings
will be.
The Heir
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Austin Saylor-Williams, serious, on edge, tired, dirtpoor,
Baqar al-Kabir, confident
Bronwyn Joy "Betsy" Bainbridge,
Cain Adams, spooky eyes, haunted eyes, cold eyes,
Cézar Barbosa, soft eyes, bags under eyes
Donald Buchanan,
Hiroko Nakahara,
Liesa Metzger,
Lucille Robicheau,
Origin
Circle one:
Ocella Caecilius
hated, favorite, grew up too fast,
a strong name, a royal name,
born leader, consumer
a warrior's name, a biblical name,
a name proclaiming ownership
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
  An Inclusive Family
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
  Brief Candles
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
  Pull The Strings
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You've revenged yourself on someone.
Agree why and how, and give them 2
Strings on you.
You're afraid of what someone can &
will do. Give them 2 Strings on you.
You have six blood siblings, each with
a gift that can become yours. In your
Birthrights section, list their names
and ages with at least one born each
year after you. Gain a String on each.
Carry Forward Heir Moves Birthrights
You get these two, and choose one more: Begin with none:
 Old Family Friend  Echo in Here
When you take your fourth harm, fall
down dying. You can't avoid death,
...........................
When you want a sibling to parrot back
, who's . . . . . .
but you can transfer it to one of your something you told them to remember,
Conditions remaining siblings. Death, be it as a robed
figure or as a shadow in the door, comes
roll with dark. On a 10 up, they say it
verbatim. On a 7-9, as above, but they
for them instead of you. When you wake sound like you when they say it.
into life again, you're fully healed.
That is, unless your fourth harm is dealt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , who's . . . . . .
by your secret weakness. Choose one: Characters with either the like a sister
 Oxhorn to me or like a brother to me Conditions
 Applewood
Notes
count as your siblings.
 Obsidian
In that case your next remaining sibling
inherits your powers, and you just die.
, who's . . . . . .
...........................
When you kill someone, mark
 Inheritance of the Eldest experience.
When someone with one of your
Birthrights dies, whether by your hand
or not, fill in that Birthright's circle.
 Pluralize
........................... , who's . . . . . .
Their gift is bestowed on you, and
you've unlocked that power. If a Condition that you're handing out
could apply to two people present, give
Harm  Family Portrait it to both of them.
When you remind your siblings that
you're in charge, choose:
Experience Points:
SS gain a String on one of those siblings, ...........................
Siblings that you specify move their
, who's . . . . . .
SS carry 1 forward to confronting
non-siblings. bodies exactly as you move yours until

>> advance you let them stop.
 Firstborn
Strings When you get someone to attend to  You're All The Same
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , who's . . . . . .
your needs, perhaps combing your hair
or bringing you a glass of water, gain a You can spend Strings on siblings
String on them. interchangeably.
 Or Else
Spend a String on a blood sibling, then Other Moves
flashback to having told them what to
do in the situation at hand. If you told
them to do something that kids can do,
they're doing it. If it was out of their
league, or something which might leave
them worse off than what they think
you'll do if they don't - they aren't.
Bronwyn Joy Bainbridge Caecilia Ocella
aka "Betsy" (Ancient Roman version)
(New England Yankee)
Family name first, given name second.
The family name is modified for each sex.
Two given names, the family name, and
Boys have an additional formal name
an informal-use nickname.
used within the family.
Anthony Richard Bainbridge "Dickey"
(Marcus) Caecilius Ambustus
Arthur Lindall Bainbridge "Finn"

Naming The Heir's Siblings

(Gaius) Caecilius Bestia
Calvin Michael Bainbridge "Chip"
(Titus) Caecilius Bucco
David Winthrop Bainbridge "Win"
(Gnaeus) Caecilius Canius
Garrett Scott Bainbridge "Skip"
(Servius) Caecilius Catulus
Henry Mason Bainbridge "Kip"
(Decimus) Caecilius Malleolus
John Brooks Bainbridge "Brooks"
(Tiberius) Caecilius Proculus
John Hubbard Bainbridge "Hub"
(Aulus) Caecilius Quadratus
Theodore Ford Bainbridge "Tad"
(Lucius) Caecilius Varro
William Tawe Bainbridge "Billy"
(Vibius) Caecilius Vespillo
A support document for
Kendall Quinn Bainbridge "Quinny"
Caecilia Atella
Keaton Sloane Bainbridge "Keats"
Caecilia Avita Monsterhearts Second Skins
Parker Morgan Bainbridge "Trip" photographsoflightning.com/mhss
Caecilia Fullo
Caecilia Helva
Anne Kimball Bainbridge "Posey"
Caecilia Laenas
Beatrice Margaret Bainbridge "Bea"
Caecilia Lupa
Bethany Louise Bainbridge "Beth"
Caecilia Merga
Dorothy Bettina Bainbridge "Bunny"
Caecilia Regula
Elizabeth Adeline Bainbridge "Poppy"
Caecilia Strabo
India Hastings Bainbridge "India"
Caecilia Taura
Julia Beals Bainbridge "Topsy"
Martha Helen Bainbridge "Mimi"
Mary-Sara Wade Bainbridge "Sissy"
Sarah Peyton Bainbridge "Paige"

This support written by Jackson Tegu with the help and works of
Eric J. Boyd,
Jason Morningstar,
Igor Toscano,
Gregor Hutton,
Christopher Stone-Bush & Tomoko Onishi,
Christian Griffen,
Élise Guérin-Bouchard,
and Jessica Hammer.

Naming The Heir's Siblings
To play the Heir, one must name their
six siblings. To support the player who
wishes to have their siblings named in
the same culture as their own name,
I offer this humble collection.
Lists are of boy names, unisex names
where possible, and then girl names.
Austin Saylor-Williams
(Suburban American)
Anthony, Bryce, Chase, Colton, Conner,
Dylan, Jared, Kyle, Spencer, Zachary
Jade, Riley, Shelby
Brooke, Cassidy, Dallas, Haley, Jenna,
Mackenzie, Makayla, Savannah, Sierra,
Sydney
Baqar al-Kabir
(Westernized Arabic)
Amr, Ghazi, Hamzah, Imran, Khalid,
Mahmud, Rashid, Sharif, Yusuf, Zahir
Banujah, Chanda, Faiza, Jihan,
Kashifah, Ramisa, Maira, Namyla,
Suraya, Urshia
Each list is titled with a first-and-last
name pairing from the Heir as well
as the culture those names were
taken from. I've sought names that
read correctly with only an American
understanding of English, and
restricted myself to the acute accent.
Bronwyn Joy Bainbridge
(New England Yankee)
See Reverse
Cain Adams
(Biblical American)
Abel, Abraham, Gideon, Hiram, Jonah,
Levi, Mordecai, Noah, Saul, Seth
Abigail, Delilah, Dinah, Judith, Leah,
Naomi, Rachel, Rebekah, Ruth, Sarah
Cézar Barbosa
(Brazilian)
Armando, Bonifacio, Fausto, Hugo,
Leandro, Marco, Oscar, Silvio, Ulisses,
Valerio
Ariel, Darci
Anabela, Beatriz, Bruna, Calixta,
Emiliana, Frederica, Iolanda, Leonor,
Madalena, Rosa
Donald Buchanan
(Scottish)
Alastair, Dougal, Finlay, Gregor,
Graeme, James, Keith, Lachlan,
Malcom, Rory
Cameron, Drew, Jo, Logan, Morgan
Ailsa, Faye, Fiona, Catriona, Elspeth,
Irene, Isobel, Morag, Morven, Ruth
Hiroko Nakahara
(Westernized Japanese)
Hiroto, Isamu, Kenichiro, Koike,
Mitsuo, Mukai, Noboru, Okada,
Takahiro, Yujiro
Jun, Kohaku
Ayumi, Haruna, Hikaru, Hiromi,
Kanon, Kaoru, Saori, Yukari, Yuuko,
Miwa
Liesa Metzger
(German)
Bastian, Boris, Dennis, Florian, Frank,
Juergen, Johann, Nicolaus, Sven, Tobias
Sascha
Andrea, Annika, Brigitte, Fabienne,
Ines, Inga, Kathrin, Melanie, Petra,
Sabine
Lucille Robicheau
(Québécois)
Alain, Étienne, Francis, Louis, Mathieu,
Olivier, Pascal, Remi, Serge, Yannick
Michel/Michèle, Samuel/Samuelle,
Frédéric/Frédérique (all pronounced
the same), Claude, Camille
Alice, Annie, Céleste, Chantal, Éliane,
Éveline, Joséphine, Marianne, Mélissa,
Véronique
Ocella Caecilius
(Westernized Ancient Roman)
Ambustus, Bestia, Bucco, Canius,
Catulus, Malleolus, Proculus,
Quadratus, Varro, Vespillo
Atella, Avita, Fullo, Helva, Laenas,
Lupa, Merga, Regula, Strabo, Taura
Playing the Horseman
Threatening, restless, defensive, driven. The
Horseman faces unresolved questions about their
identity and plays high stakes games to get the
answers they need.

The Horseman can be either temperamental and

magnetic (Volatile 2, Hot 1) or mysterious and
dangerous (Dark 2, Volatile 1). Either way, they are
oriented toward rash actions and physical power,
and weak in social control. They may compensate
for their low Cold stat by resorting to scare tactics.

The Horseman starts with Heads and Steed, which

in combination establish them as a person with an
unstable identity and a terrifying horse (or similar
creature). From there, the Horseman can use their
optional moves to escalate the stakes dramatically.
Dare encourages the Horseman to taunt and
challenge others; The Hunt encourages them to
chase down their enemies; Headless allows for
extreme recklessness; and Green Ribbon rewards
moments of raw vulnerability.

If you are running a game for the Horseman, give

them reasons to lean into their worst instincts and
consider what interesting objects you might
present as potential heads.

The Horseman
Your head is not your own. Yours was stolen from you—by whom or
how, you don't remember. All you know is that you will find it one
day, no matter what it takes. No matter what you have to become.

Credits
This is a fan Skin for Monsterhearts 2, designed by Elise
Grifka Wander. Check out the game at
buriedwithoutceremony.com
When you ride, people fear you. And they should: you have nothing to
lose, and they have everything. When you finally find what you're
looking for, there will be hell to pay.
Identity
Name: Alex, Crane, Dolan, Ewen,
Hayaki, Ignacia, Jinal, Joan,
October, Ravid, Scarlett, Winifred
Look: uncomfortable, agitated,
intimidating, athletic, wounded
Your Backstory
You are threatening. Gain a
String on everyone.
You made a bet with someone
recently. What was it, and
with whom? They gain a String
on you.
Darkest Self
Your head is not your own.
You want to find yours, but
you don't know which it is.
You had better try them all.
You escape your Darkest Self
when you find a part of
yourself or you cross running
water, whichever happens
first.
Eyes: steady eyes, searching eyes,
flaming eyes, hungry eyes, vacant
eyes
Origin: long dead, transplant,
cursed, summoned, stuff of legend
Strings
Harm
Experience

 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Horseman move.
 Take another Horseman move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Join a Headless Hunt.
Conditions
Horseman Moves
You get Steed, Heads, and one
more:
 Steed
Your bicycle, skateboard, or other
suitable vehicle/item can become a
steed with the appearance of your
choosing. Decide what this vehicle
or item is and what it looks like as
a steed. When riding your Steed, it
counts as a Gang, and you can
choose whether physical harm hits
you or your Steed. If your Steed
takes harm, it reverts to its
original form instantly and you
cannot use this ability again until
your Steed rests.
 Heads
You start with one head, but it's
not rightfully yours. If you want to
replace it with something else—a
pumpkin, another head, a mask—
you can. You can switch back to
your usual head within a
reasonable amount of time.
 Headless
You can survive for short periods
with no head at all. When you
are without a head, replace your
stats with the following: Hot: -2,
Cold: -2, Volatile: +3, Dark: +3. You
can see and hear without a head,
but you cannot speak.
 Dare
When you challenge someone to
fight or harm you (physically or
verbally), roll with Dark. On a 7+,
they choose one of the following:
 you accept the challenge and
the Horseman takes 1
forward to harming you
 you accept the challenge and
become your Darkest Self
 you refuse and the Horseman
can give you a condition
 you refuse and the Horseman
becomes their Darkest Self
On a 10+, you (the Horseman) also
gain a String on them.
 Green Ribbon
When someone sees you take off
your head and they successfully
roll to Keep Their Cool, you both
mark experience.
 The Hunt
When you are in active pursuit of
another being, roll with Volatile.
Add +1 if you are on your Steed
and/or if you spend a String on
your quarry. On a 10+, choose one.
On a 7+, choose two:
 you take 1 Harm in the hunt
 your Steed is exhausted and
reverts to its normal form
 your quarry immediately
takes 1 forward to a roll
against you
 the hunt takes you to a
dangerous place

When you have sex with someone, each player states

Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Sex whether they keep a secret or share a secret. If either
of you shares a secret, state what it is and give a
Move String to the other person. If you both keep a secret,
Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 you both lose all Strings you had on each other.
Playing the Hunted
Nervous, resourceful, and constantly moving. The
Hunted has a Hunter coming after them, and it’ll be life-
destroying if they ever catch up. They need to always
keep moving, and to try and make sure nobody else gets
caught up in their problems.

The two stat choices for the Hunted both have Volatile
2, because the Hunted is always ready to move and act
at a moment’s notice. They change depending on
whether the Hunted is trying to push people away so
they don’t get hurt (Cold 1) or delving into weirder and
more dangerous things in search of escape (Dark 1).

The Hunter is always after them, and they’ll probably get

more twitchy and desperate as the Hunter accumulates
Strings, taking major steps like changing their identity,
running away from home, or setting up a bomb to avoid
being caught up to. If they get caught by the Hunter,
they aren’t going to win; without friends, they won’t
even be able to escape.

Come Get Me gives you a bit more leeway over how you
interact with your Hunter; if you use this move, you
stand a decent chance of getting away, even without
help. It might even be easier with your Hunter causing a
distraction for anyone else who was after you.

Your Sex Move can serve as a last resort, if your Hunter

has a ton of Strings and you need some space from
them. It can also be used as a weapon against someone
you want to hurt, by putting them in your Hunter’s
sights.
Credits
The Hunted
Every waking moment is spent looking over your shoulder, and you’ve lost
track of the sleepless nights checking and double checking the doors are
locked, making sure the traps are in place. It’s coming after you, and
nothing it wants is good. You can’t kill it. You can barely hope to escape it if
it gets close enough. Did you hear footsteps?

...
This skin is designed by C.M.Ruebsaat
Art by silverwood_art
Run.

Identity
Name: Astin, Cas, D, Hound, Li,
March, Oneida, Piper, Rae, Sasha,
Sparrow, Viv
Look: unassuming, altered,
reckless, rugged, all smiles
Your Backstory
Someone can tell something is
up, but you’re keeping quiet
about it. Take a String on them,
and they take a String on you.
Your Hunter is after you, and
they aren’t stopping. They gain a
String on you.
Darkest Self
Everything and everyone around
you is a threat. There’s no escape,
not really. You can’t do anything
but run, and you’ll deal
appropriately with anyone who
tries to stop you. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone
proves to you that they aren’t
dangerous, or when you run into
something really dangerous.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold 1
Eyes: nervous eyes, distant eyes,
focused eyes, calm eyes, deer’s
eyes
Origin: escaped from faerie,
government experiment, a family
curse, failed devil deal, cranky ex
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Hunted move.
❍ Take another Hunted move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You know some Fellow Runaways.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Volatile 2 Dark -1
Hunted Moves
You get The Hunter, and choose two
more:
● The Hunter
The Hunter is after you. At the
start of each session, the Hunter
gains 1 String on you. Once the
Hunter has 5 Strings on you, they
catch up, and you will be taken or
killed, unless someone helps you
escape.
When you take major steps to
obscure your trail, you can
remove a String the Hunter has
on you.
❍ Enigmatic
When you successfully avoid
someone who is looking for you
or who wants your attention, take
a String on them.
❍ Cornered Rat
When you feel like you have
nowhere to go, give yourself the
Condition trapped. While you
have this condition, you add 1 to
Lash Out Physically.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, erase half the Strings the
Hunter has on you (rounded up). The Hunter gains that
number of Strings on whoever you had sex with, and they gain
Move The Hunter move until the Hunter has no Strings on them.
❍ The Dark is Coming
When you roll 7 or higher to Gaze
Into the Abyss, in addition to the
regular results, you can ask the
abyss 1 question about someone
following or hunting you.
❍ My Prey Alone
If you would die to any means
other than your Hunter, instead
describe your miraculous escape
and give the Hunter a String on
you.
❍ Come Get Me
Once each session, say that your
Hunter shows up, right now. They
become an immediate threat that
everyone present (especially you)
has to deal with. If you escape
them, remove a String they have
on you.
❍ Follow Me If You Want
to Live
When you Run Away, you can
spend a String on anyone present
to bring them with you wherever
you go. If they refuse to come
with you, take 2 Strings on them.
Playing The Kitsune
Deceptive, mischievous, seductive, trapped. The Kitsune is about being unable to
tell the truth, even when it would be the best choice to do so.

Nine Tales encourages you to lie by giving away Strings any time you tell the truth.
That isn’t all bad though, as people with Strings on you will use them, giving you
more screen time. Lie enough and people might offer you XP to tell them the
truth for once. This is the reason you don’t have a “mark XP” move. Use it to your
advantage.

In Japanese folklore Kitsune are shape shifting tricksters, taking the shape of
beautiful women or young girls that seduce or waylay travelers. Skinchange allows
you to assume a human form that is distinctly yours, recognizable to everyone
else. With Sincerest Flattery though, you can take another person’s form and
Kitsunesuki allows you to take another person’s body. You don’t gain any of the
target’s knowledge or mannerisms though, so you might have to hold steady to
avoid raising suspicions.

Use common sense and the fiction when dealing with Conditions while wearing
someone else’s shape or skin. Physical and social Conditions will stay with the
body (whether yours or not), but emotional ones will stay with you.

The word kitsu-ne means “comes to sleep” while ki-tsune means “always comes”.
Because of this, many stories have the kitsune continuing to spend every night
with their lover, even after their true nature has been revealed. These fox-wives
often grant wishes or powers to their lovers (and offspring), both of which are
represented in your Sex Move.

Sex
The Kitsune
When you have sex, decide if you have a loud, dramatic, and
obviously fake orgasm. If you do, give your partner the
Move Condition infatuated with [your name] and they choose one:
 they awake the next morning with you in their arms,
The lies started out so small, so innocent. You told yourself they were nec-
with or without reason as to how you got there;
essary to keep playing at being a human. Cover your tracks. Double back on
 they may use a move from any playbook once before the
your trail. Mask your scent. Keep the hounds confused.
next sunrise or sunset (their choice);
 they give you the Condition faker and take a String on
But they kept growing, knotting up on each other like a tangled skein of
you.
yarn. It’s impossible to separate one lie from another now, and you couldn’t
unwind this mess even if you wanted to.
People with the Condition infatuated with [your name] count
as having no Strings on you when using your Kitsune moves.
The only thing to do now? Keep lying.

Identity
Name: Danny, Jess, Kumiho, Miho,
Reynard Sionn, Tamamo, Todd,
Veronica, Voss
Look: opulent, sleek, fur trimmed,
vulpine, red headed, beguiling,
obviously false
Your Backstory
Your compulsive lying hurt someone
you care about. If they confronted you,
take a String on each other. If not, they
take two Strings on you.
You’re not shy about sharing other’s
beds. Take a String each on up to three
people that absolutely everyone knows
you’ve slept with.
Darkest Self
Every word that falls from your mouth
is a brazen lie; a malicious falsehood
intended to destroy reputations and
relationships. You lie even in the face
of irrefutable proof and at great cost
to yourself. You escape your Darkest
Self when someone you care about
is physically harmed by one of your
many untruths.
Hot 2 Cold -1
Hot 1 Cold -1
Eyes: cunning eyes, honest eyes, sly
eyes, hooded eyes, playful eyes
Origin: curious about humans,
a century old, fox lover, nine tailed,
devoured a thousand livers, messenger
of the kami Inari
Strings
Conditions
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Oni move.
 Take another Oni move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Join an Onizoku family.
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Kitsune Moves
You get Nine Tales and Skinchange and
choose one more:
 Nine Tales
Whenever you tell the complete truth,
without exaggeration, embellishment, or
omission, give anyone listening a String
on you.
 Skinchange
You chosen item is (circle one):
a flat broad leaf, a bundle of reeds, a
human skull, a discarded sandal.
When you balance your chosen item on
your head, you assume human form.
Describe what you look like during your
backstory; you’ll always assume this
form while masquerading as a human.
Take the item off, and you’ll revert back
to your fox form.
 Sincerest Flattery
When you mimic the form of someone
who has no Strings on you, spend any
number of Strings on them, then roll
with Strings spent. On a hit (7 up), you
look and sound like that person until the
next sunrise or sunset (your choice). On
a 10 up, you can revert to your normal
form any time you wish before then.
 Vixen
When you successfully turn someone on
(7 up), they choose an additional option
from the 7-9 list.
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 False Promises
When you glamour worthless junk to
serve as a payment or a bribe for
someone who has no Strings on you, roll
with dark. On a 10 up, choose two. On a
7-9, choose one:
 the glamour is extremely flashy or
impressive (and the target reacts
appropriately);
 the glamour lasts for a full scene
rather than just a few minutes;
 the target will assume they lost the
item when the glamour fades.
 Kitsunetsuki
When you stare into the eyes of a side
character who has no Strings on you,
roll with dark. On a 10 up, you possess
them; you are in full control of their
body and experience the world through
their senses until you take harm or
choose to leave. On a 7-9, you still
possess them, but choose one:
 you have a voracious appetite and
must eat constantly;
 you develop unmistakably vulpine
facial features, gaining the Condition
fox-faced;
 you’re unable to speak intelligibly
and can only babble gibberish.
 Blind Trust
When you tell the truth to someone with
the Condition infatuated with [your name],
you choose if you give them a String or
not.
Playing The Knight
Self-sacrificing, heroic, caring, and frightened. The Knight
is threatened by something powerful and dangerous
that they can’t face, in part because they can’t or won’t
put themselves first. They could save everyone, but they
can’t save themselves.

The two stat lines for The Knight let you choose
between harsh and measured (Volatile 2 & Cold 1) or
overly friendly (Hot 2 & Volatile 1). The Knight is
woefully unprepared to face the reality of how bleak the
world can get, hence their low Dark.

The Dragon is the core of The Knight’s playbook, and

what specifically it is can drastically change the themes
and scope of The Knight’s story. A literal dragon or other
monster is certainly an option, but a helicopter parent,
concerns about your sexuality, or the looming threat of
college are all also options. Work with your MC to
determine whether you want the threat to be
supernatural, mundane, or a mix of both!

Dragonslayer allows you to face down threats to the lives

of others, but not to whatever threatens your own life.
However, if someone is threatening you and your little
sister, that’s enough for you to pull a beatdown on them.
A threat to someone’s life doesn’t literally have to mean
they’ll die; it could mean getting grounded for an entire
year, being horribly cursed, or being forced to keep
living with an awful family.

The Knight
You’re a hero. The Knight in shining armour, there to save the day. How
many times have you saved a friend’s ass? You’ve lost count. Point is, you’re
real good at it. But you’ve got a problem, sorta.

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Identity
Name: Chastity, Gawain, Robin,
Percy, Raseem, Lance, J,A., Trish,
Artura, Kay, Morgan
Look: brilliant, strong, optimistic,
battered, suck-up
Eyes: righteous eyes, unsure eyes,
shining eyes, wrathful eyes, friendly
eyes
Origin:, heraldic line, sword from a tree,
overbearing home life, chivalric romance
novels, LARPer
Knight Moves
You get The Dragon, and choose one
more:
● The Dragon
You have a Dragon in your life,
some big, looming threat that you
are too afraid to face. When you
come in contact with The Dragon,
it may give you a Condition.
❍ In Shining Armour
You have a suit of ‘armour’ that is
(circle 1): a costume, cardboard,
sports equipment, biker gear.
When you wear your armour, all
harm you suffer is reduced by 1,
and nobody can take advantage of
your Conditions when trying to
harm you.

Your Backstory Strings When you successfully defy, ❍ Martyr

You fear The Dragon. It gains 3
Strings on you. It cannot be
defeated if it has Strings on you.
You see somebody else’s problems
as more important than your
own. Gain a String on each other.
Darkest Self
You don’t have a chance of
slaying The Dragon. Hell, you
can’t even stand your ground and
face it. You’re no hero, you’re
lonely, pathetic, and scared. You
can’t save anyone, least of all
yourself. Escape your Darkest Self
by getting a clear, undeniable
win, or when someone faces
their own mortality because you
were too scared to save them.
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Knight move.
❍ Take another Knight move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You lead an Honourable Order.
Conditions
defeat, or drive off The Dragon,
clear a Condition and erase 1 of its
Strings on you.
❍ Dragonslayer
When you face down a threat in
someone else’s life, add 1 to your
rolls and harm.
❍ Can’t Save Everyone
When someone gets hurt because
you were too busy to help them,
mark experience and they take a
String on you.
When someone with Strings on
you is about to take harm, you
can show up in the nick of time
to protect them. You take the
harm instead, and gain a String on
them.
❍ Righteous Cause
When you declare your intentions
to someone, ask them if you are
on the right path. If they answer
yes, they take a String on you and
you take 1 Forward. Otherwise,
they can give you a Condition.

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, ask them if they feel
like you have things worse than they do. If they say that
you do, mark experience, but The Dragon gains a String on
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark -1 Move you. If they say you don’t, take a String on each other.
Playing The Lost
Lonely, explorative, and free. The Lost doesn’t wholly
belong in this world with everyone else. They’re an
outsider not just within the community, but to reality
itself.

The two stat lines for The Lost lead you to travelling to
weird and mysterious places (Volatile 2 & Dark 1) or to
using your outsider status to your advantage against
people (Cold 2 & Volatile 1).

The Lost has a heavy focus on exploration; Wander With

Me encourages you to keep looking for new and
unexplored places to take people, while Not Tied Down
pushes you towards escaping to dangerous places or
places where you have control to get the most out of
people following you or leaving you alone.

When creating The Lost, consider what The Paths are to

you. Are they a secret network of passages under the
town? A faerie forest you access through your closet?
The post-apocalyptic future you jump to? Any and all of
these are options. The places the Paths lead are similarly
up to you. A safe place could mean your house, or a
sacred grove. A dangerous place might be a bad part of
town or an irradiated wasteland. A place that doesn’t
exist might be inside a magic book or a shadow version
of your school.

When finding a new length of the Paths, describe it like

you did the first, and come up with another safe place,
dangerous place, and a place that doesn’t exist for it to
lead to.
The Lost
You’re not from around here. No, not just this town. This world. This time
period. Maybe even this universe. You really, really don’t belong in this place.

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Identity
Name: Ava, Lex, Veronica,
Thomas, Kegan, Zero, Roman, Mia,
Erin, Gex, Lenna, Quin
Look: hidden, wanderlust, layers,
helpless, flowing
Your Backstory
Someone is curious about why
you’re here. Gain a String on
them.
Someone knows where you came
from, even if you don’t. Give them
a String on you.
Eyes: collapsing eyes, hard eyes,
unreachable eyes, obscure eyes,
hinting eyes
Origin: stolen shadow, time paradox,
replaced, from another world, homeless
Strings
The Lost Moves
You get The Paths, and choose one
more:
● The Paths
You know an entrance to the
Paths, which are (circle 1): endless
highways, dark forests, shifting
tunnels, mirror towns.
You can go to the Paths any time,
right away, and they can take you
to a safe place, a dangerous place,
and a place that doesn’t exist. You
can bring others with you, if they
are willing.
❍ To My Own Devices
When you act to help someone
without them knowing, mark
experience.
❍ Wander With Me
When you show someone a
strange place they’ve never been
before or take them to the Paths,
take a String on them.
❍ Trapped On the Road
When you throw someone bodily
onto the Paths, roll with Volatile.
On a 10 up, they end up alone on
the Paths, and must find their
way out. On a 7-9, you end up
there with them.
❍ The Shelter
You have a temporary shelter to
stay that is nevertheless fully
yours. It exists in the normal
world and all your Paths can lead
there. You add 1 to all rolls you
make in your shelter.

Darkest Self Harm ❍ Not Tied Down

You don’t belong here. This place
is too limited and claustrophobic.
You need to lose yourself further,
go to the Paths, cut every tie you
have to the world by any means
necessary. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone
forces you to stay put or when
you’ve cut every connection you
have.
When you Run Away from
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍ someone, ask them if they follow
you. If they don’t, they lose a
String on you.
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Lost move.
❍ Take another Lost move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Find 2 new places the Paths lead.
❍ You get to know Misfits and Vagabonds.

Conditions

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, you become a bit more
tied down and involved with this place. Give them a String
on you, and take a String on someone they have a String
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1 Move on.
Playing The Maenad
Short-sighted, impulsive, hedonistic, and destructive,
the Maenad is all about pursuing what feels good right
now, in the moment, and making the consequences
someone else’s problem. The Maenad takes the
adolescent tendency to be short-sighted and ignore
the consequences to the extreme, and if they can pull
others into their risky behavior, so much the better.
For the Maenad, the line between “fun” and “deadly” is
constantly blurring. The two stat choices allow you to
decide whether your Maenad is more about pleasure (1
Hot, 1 Volatile) or risk taking (1 Hot, 2 Volatile).

Note that the Maenad’s pleasure-seeking behavior

doesn’t just revolve around parties. This could mean
skipping school to hang out with friends, gorging on
junk food, shoplifting, abusing drugs or alcohol, etc.
The Maenad uses pleasure to avoid the unpleasantness
of life. Rite of Spring hints at this: their hedonism is
a form of escapism. When creating the Maenad, think
about what forces they’re pushing back against: it could
be overprotective parents, strict teachers, or impossibly
high expectations.

The Maenad’s Darkest Self represents one last ditch

effort to avoid reality by taking things too far. In
folklore, Maenads worked themselves into a frenzy and
often committed acts of brutal savagery with their bare
hands. In a modern setting, this may look like bloody
mosh pits, broken bottles, and parties that rage out
of control. All in all, the Maenad keeps racing the car

The Maenad
faster, and they won’t stop until they crash.

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Let the rest of the world worry about rules, responsibilities, deadlines, and
consequences. You’re too busy having fun to let any of that get you down. As
long as you can keep the good times going, reality will never be able to catch
you. That’s why when you’re around, life’s a party, and everyone’s invited.
Maybe one day you’ll grow up and make good choices--that is, if you live
that long. If not? Well, at least you made the most of every minute.
Identity
Name: Candy, Agave, Amber,
Blythe, Zelda, Dean, Byron, Oscar,
Tyler, Pablo
Look: hangover chic, savage,
barbaric, rebellious, flamboyant
Your Backstory
You helped someone loosen up.
Gain a String on them.
Somebody saw you go too far and
do something you really regret
while indulging. They gain a
String on you.
Darkest Self
The party is over. Everyone has
gone home. You’re alone, and the
consequences are pressing in.
You need to escape back into the
refuge of pleasure. Break stuff.
Cause harm. Turn the party into
a riot. It’s not really a good time
unless there’s blood on the floor.
Anyone who stands against you is
just an object to be broken. You
escape your Darkest Self when
you realize no one is having fun
anymore or someone forces you
to confront what you’ve been
running from.
Hot 2 Cold -1
Hot 1 Cold -1
Maenad Moves
Eyes: wild, glazed, red-rimmed, You get Rite of Spring, and choose
dancing, bold two more.
Origin: made a pact with  Rite of Spring
Dionysus, living fast and dying When you go overboard in your
young, rebel without a cause, life pursuit of pleasure, you enter a
of the party blissed-out stupor. First, name
why you’re indulging: to rebel, to
forget, to fit in, to avoid what’s
Strings coming. Then Gaze into the Abyss
with a +2. If someone joins you,
a successful role will also let you
learn one of the following:
 A secret desire
 A past indiscretion
 A personal vice
On a 10+, you also gain a String
on them. On a fail, the party’s
over, and reality catches up.
Someone sees you going
overboard and gains a String on
Harm you.
Experience   Adrenaline Junkie
When you risk long-term
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
consequences in order to pursue
pleasure, mark experience. If
 Take another Maenad move.
someone else gets wrapped up in
 Take another Maenad move.
the aftermath, they gain a String
 Take a move from any Skin.
on you.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Join a Den of Iniquity.
 We Really Shouldn’t
Conditions
When you attempt to Turn
Someone On, add +1 if giving in to
temptation is obviously a terrible
plan.
Volatile 1 Dark -1 Sex
Whenever you have sex with someone new, act as if you
had rolled a 10 on Rite of Spring. When you have sex with
Volatile 2 Dark -1 Move someone you’ve had sex with before, admit something
you’ve never told anyone else. They gain a String on you.
 Maenad’s Frenzy
Your parties are wild—and
dangerous. When engaging in
revelry with at least two other
people, you may remove 1 harm
and +1 to all rolls to Lash Out
Physically.
 My Bad Reputation
When you boast about one of
your conditions, ask someone
if it’s really such a bad thing. If
they say no, carry +1 forward to
Turn Someone On. If they say yes,
carry +1 forward to Shut Someone
Down.
 Peer Pressure
When you successfully convince
someone to try something new,
gain a String on them. Then ask if
they’re having fun. If they say no,
they gain a String on you. If they
say yes, they get +1 Forward to
convince someone else to join in.
 The Call of Dionysus
When you have collected 3 Strings
on NPC(s), you may spend them
to make all NPCs in the scene
lose their inhibitions and give in
to id. A successful shut down will
pull an NPC back to reality, but
the rest are under your spell until
the end of the scene.

Make each main character’s life not boring.
Keep the story feral.
Say what the rules demand.
Say what honesty demands.
Turn Someone On
When you turn someone on, roll with Hot. On a
10 up, gain a String on them and they choose a
reaction from below. • On a 7-9, they can either
give you a String or choose one of the reactions.
 I give myself to you,
 I promise something I think you want, or
 I get embarrassed and act awkward.
For rules on asexuality and non-attraction,
turn to page 49.
Shut Someone Down
When you shut someone down, roll with Cold. On
a 10 up, choose one from below. • On a 7-9, choose
one from below, but you come across poorly, and
they give you a Condition in return.
 They lose a String on you,
 If they have no Strings on you, gain one on them,
 They gain a Condition, or
 You take 1 Forward.
Keep Your Cool
When you keep your cool and act despite fear,
name what you’re afraid of and roll with Cold. On
a 10 up, you keep your cool and gain insight: ask
the MC a question about the situation and take 1
Forward to acting on that information. • On a 7-9,
the MC will tell you how your actions would leave
you vulnerable, and you can choose to back down
or go through with it.
Player Sheet
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Lash Out Physically
When you lash out physically, roll with Volatile.
On a 10 up, you deal them harm, and they choke
up momentarily before they can react. • On a 7-9,
you harm them but choose one:
 They learn something about your true nature
and gain a String on you,
 The MC decides how bad the harm turns out,
 You become your Darkest Self.
Run Away
When you run away, roll with Volatile. On a 10
up, you get away to a safe place. On a 7-9, you get
away but choose one:
 You run into something worse,
 You cause a big scene, or
 You leave something behind.
Gaze Into the Abyss
When you gaze into the abyss, name what you’re
looking for and roll with Dark. On a 10 up, the
abyss shows you lucid visions, and you take 1
Forward to addressing them. On a 7-9, the abyss
shows you confusing and alarming visions, but
you get your answer nonetheless.
Experience
Whenever you fail a roll, mark experience.
Pulling Strings
When you spend a String on someone, choose one:
 Tempt them to do what you want,
 Give them a Condition,
 Add 1 to your roll against them, or
 Add 1 to the harm you deal them.
To learn about tempting someone, turn to page 26.
Healing
When you take time to tend to your wounds, once
per session you may heal 1 Harm. If someone else is
there with you, tending to your wounds delicately
and intimately - and perhaps with erotic subtext -
you may heal an additional 1 Harm.
Skirting Death
To avoid death, erase all harm and choose one:
 Become your Darkest Self,
 Lose all Strings you have on everybody.
Conditions
If you take advantage of someone’s Condition
while making a move against them, add 1 to your
roll. A Condition goes away when the character
suffering it takes appropriate action to alleviate it.
Gangs
Gangs add +1 to your rolls and harm as applicable.
 MC Sheet
Make each main character’s life not boring.
Keep the story feral.
Say what the rules demand.
Say what honesty demands.
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Preparing to Play Principles Side Character Strings

As the MC, teaching the game often falls to  Embrace melodrama. You can spend a side character’s Strings on a
you. This is an outline for how to teach the  Address yourself to the characters, main character in four ways:
game, with page references to help you look not the players.  Offer them an experience point to do
up anything you want guidance on. Feel free to  Make monsters seem human, and vice versa. what you want.
modify this process and teach in whatever way  Make labels matter.  Place a Condition on them.
works best for you.  Give everyone a messy life.  Add 1 to the harm you’re dealing them.
 Find the catch.  Ambush them with a Reaction, setting it up
 Gather Supplies (58)  Ask provocative questions and and knocking it down in one fell swoop.
 Explain Premise and Roles (59) build on the answers.
 Introduce Safety Tools (60)  Be a fan of the main characters.
 Option: Small Town (60)  Treat side characters like stolen cars. Villains
 Pick Skins (61)  Give side characters simple,
 Choose Identities (62) divisive motivations. If a villain becomes meaningfully involved in
 Establish Setting (63)  Sometimes, disclaim decision making. the story, you can do the following two things
 Discuss Roleplaying (65) to give yourself a bit of extra structure and
 Discuss Moves and Strings (66) inspiration for playing them:
 Choose Stats and Moves (67) Reactions  Write a custom Principle for playing them.
 Teach Reactively (68)  Write a custom Reaction for them.
 Establish Backstories (69)  Put them together.
 Set Up Seating Chart (70)  Separate them.
 Start Playing!  Tell them the possible consequences and ask.
 Inflict harm (as established).
 Enact drastic measures.
The First Scene  Turn their move back on them.
 Leap to the worst possible conclusion.
Start the first scene in homeroom, and use your  Expose a dangerous secret to the wrong person.
principles to help uncover tensions.  Take a String on someone.
 Herald the abyss.
If you’re antsy to get the story rolling, here are  Trigger their Darkest Self.
three reliable options:  At every turn: “What do you do?”
 Stage a disappearance.
 Plan a party.
 Demand a fight.
Playing The Fae
Alluring, otherworldly, fickle, and vengeful. The Fae
entices people into making promises, and wields faerie
vengeance when those promises are broken. They also
have the ability to commune with ethereal forces, just
beyond the veil.

The two stat choices for the Fae allow you to slant
toward being either beautiful and mysterious (Hot 2
& Dark 1) or audacious and alien (Volatile 2 & Hot 1).
With a consistently-low Cold stat, they aren’t prone to
being very chill, cynical, or wry. From their forward
sensuality to their unwavering sense of justice, sincerity
is a big theme for the Fae.

When you play the Fae, promises matter. Use the Fae’s
allure and wit to tease those promises out of other
characters. You can add mechanical incentive for others
to make promises to you by spending Strings to tempt
them to do what you want, or through the move Lure.
Keep track of the promises that others make to you, in
the margins of your character sheet or on scrap paper.

Beyond the Veil, Guide, the option to join a Jury of Fae,

and talk of faery justice all invite you to collaboratively
imagine the world of faery. To do so, ask questions
of the MC, anticipate questions being asked of you in
return, and brace yourself for surprise.

The Fae
At the edges of this world, just beyond the veil, there are colours that few
mortals even dream of. Beauty enough to shatter any heart. The Fae live and
breathe at the edges of this world. They keep a dusting of that magic tucked
behind their ears, just in case.

Credits And the Fae are willing to share. They’re nothing if not generous, asking for
only one thing in return. A promise. Keep it, and the true beauty of the world
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Identity
Name: Anders, Aurora, Crow,
Gail, Harmony, Iris, Lilith, Ping,
Selene, Sienna, Walthus
Look: dainty, girlish, gaunt,
mysterious, dishevelled
Your Backstory
You wear your heart on your
sleeve. Give everyone one String.
You’ve captured someone’s fancy.
Gain 2 Strings on them.
Darkest Self
Everything you say seems a
promise. Everything you hear
seems a promise. If a promise is
broken, justice must be wrought
in trickery or blood. You aren’t
subject to the human rules of
mercy. To escape your Darkest
Self, you must in some way
re-balance the scales of justice.
Hot 2 Cold -1
Hot 1 Cold -1
Eyes: quick eyes, lyrical eyes,
mesmerizing eyes, laughing eyes,
piercing eyes
Origin: fae born, fae blooded,
swapped at birth, stole the gift,
touched with the gift
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Fae move.
 Take another Fae move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You belong to a Jury of Fae.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Volatile 2 Dark -1
Fae Moves  Lure
Whenever someone makes
You get Faery Contract, and choose
a promise to you, they mark
one more:
experience. Whenever someone
breaks a promise to you, you
 Faery Contract mark experience.
If someone breaks a promise or
contract made to you, take a
 Guide
String on them. When spending a
If you spend a String on someone
String to even out the score
willing, you can bring them
and get justice on a broken
promise, add these options to
across the veil, into the faery
realm. The spell lasts for a scene
Pulling Strings:
or two, before you’re both
 they fuck up something simple
returned to the mundane world.
at a crucial moment, suffering
1 Harm if appropriate,
 add 2 to your roll on an act of  Beyond The Veil
vengeance. To seek audience with the Faery
King, Gaze Into the Abyss. On a 10
up, in addition to other results,
 Unashamed the Faery King reveals to you a
You can give someone a String on
hidden String on someone. Gain
you to add 3 to your attempt to
it. • On a 7 to 9, in addition to
Turn Them On.
other results, the Faery King
demands a favour of you.
 The Wild Hunt
When you draw upon your
most feral manner, echoing the
lithe movements of a cat or the
voracity of a wolf, add 1 to your
roll to Turn Someone On.
Sex When you lie naked with another, you can ask them for a
Move promise. If they refuse, take 2 Strings on them.
Playing the Ghost
Lonely, wounded, caring, and creepy. The Ghost has
experienced intense trauma, and now seeks validation
and intimacy. They have the potential to provide care
and healing for others, but also tend to ignore personal
and physical boundaries.

The two stat choices for the Ghost let you steer toward
being either icy and distant (Cold 2 & Dark 1), or scary
and moody (Dark 2 & Volatile 1). Your ghost might end
up crying out for help, pushing away the very people
they care about, or burning themself out trying to take
care of others.

At the start of the game, the Ghost’s low Hot stat

means that they aren’t good at Turning Someone On. This
plays into their core dilemma – without social power,
how does the Ghost get the attention and emotional
support that they need? Maybe they’re endlessly giving,
hoping for reciprocation. Helpful Spirit and Transference
both point in that direction. Maybe they’re mean and
spiteful, assuming from the outset that they aren’t
worthy of affection. Unresolved Trauma and Projected
Blame provide a different dynamic, suggesting a mean
and spiteful Ghost who lashes out at those who remind
them of what they’ve lost. Creep and Limitless add a
voyeuristic element, encouraging the Ghost to ignore
others’ boundaries. Lots of other possibilities exist in
the interactions between these moves, too.

The Ghost
You used to have a future. Growing up was a painful tumult at times, but at
least you were growing. Now you only have a past - unfinished business to
take care of before you can leave this world behind.

Life is precious. You understand that, now that you’ve lost yours. You just
Credits want to help. You just want to be seen. But sometimes even the simplest
desires feel so difficult to grasp.
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Identity
Name: Alastor, Avira, Catherine,
Daniel, Kara, Lenora, Orville,
Rufus, Spencer, Tien
Look: forlorn, scared, stuffy,
out of place, brooding
Your Backstory
Someone knows that you’re dead
and how you died. They gain 2
Strings on you.
You’ve been inside someone’s
bedroom while they were
sleeping. Take a String on them.
Darkest Self
You become invisible,
unnoticeable. No one can see you,
feel you, or hear your voice. You
can still affect inanimate objects,
but this is your only avenue
of communication. You escape
your Darkest Self when someone
acknowledges your presence, and
demonstrates how much they
want you around.
Hot -1 Cold 2
Hot -1 Cold -1
Eyes: hollow eyes, pained eyes,
dull eyes, unnerving eyes,
piercing eyes
Origin: left to die,
murdered in cold blood,
murdered in hot passion,
a tragic accident, a confused death
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Ghost move.
 Take another Ghost move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You reside in a Haunted House.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Volatile 1 Dark 2
Ghost Moves  Projected Blame
While you’ve got the Condition
You get Unresolved Trauma, and
choose two more:
traumatized, you may act as
though others had the Condition
at fault for my death.
 Unresolved Trauma
Whenever something brings to
 Creep
mind your death, you choke
When you silently witness
up and gain the Condition
someone in one of their most
traumatized if you don’t have it
private moments, perhaps
already. Whenever someone helps
you resolve this Condition, you
sleeping or putting on makeup,
gain a String on them.
both mark experience.
 Limitless
 Helpful Spirit You can walk through walls and
When you help someone resolve a
fly.
Condition, gain a String on them.
 Transference
Whenever you spend time truly
listening to someone else’s
struggles, they heal 1 Harm, and
then transfer their remaining
harm to you.
Sex When you have sex with someone, you both get to ask a
question of one another. This can be asked in character or
Move player-to-player. They must answer honestly and directly.
Playing the Ghoul
Obsessive, dangerous, morbid, and quiet. The Ghoul is
constantly contending with voracious Hunger, and the
emotional distance brought on by death makes it easier
to do bad things in pursuit of feeding. They might be a
flesh-eating zombie, or something a little more subtle
and strange.

The two stat choices for the Ghoul paint a portrait of

the character as either cruel and erratic (Volatile 2 &
Cold 1) or disaffected and portentous (Cold 2 & Dark 1).
Since The Hunger forces you to Keep Your Cool to avoid a
feeding opportunity, your Cold stat plays a pivotal role
in maintaining self-control.

Watchful Golem and Esprit de Corpse both present

the ability to steer the Ghoul in a couple different
directions. Are you watching over others out of a
deep-rooted but unexpressed sense of care? Or are you
skulking around serving them because death took away
your sense of independence?

Short Rest For the Wicked is a recipe for pandemonium.

It’s also an invitation to the MC to frame you into a
new, dramatic situation. A lot can happen in a few
hours.

Your Sex Move prompts you to create a new Hunger.

It can be anything you like, and it’s added to your
character alongside their existing Hungers. If you have
sex often, you’ll find your appetite growing wider and

The Ghoul
weirder all the time.

Death changed you. It took away your contemplative joy, it dulled your
senses, and it left you impossibly hungry. That hunger is always with you,
like a hum in your ears that swells and crescendos until you can’t hear
anything else. Unattended, it will come to dominate you - but feeding it may
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There is a certain beauty to what you’ve become. Your gaunt body, its
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Identity
Name: Akuji, Cage, Cole, Georgia,
Horace, Iggy, Mara, Morrigan,
Silas, Sharona, Victor, Zed
Look: gaunt, stiff, disfigured,
detached, wrecked
Your Backstory
Someone reminded you what
love was, when you thought that
death had stolen it away from
you forever. Give them a String.
Did anyone watch you die? If so,
you gain 2 Strings on each other.
Darkest Self
Your dull hunger sharpens. You
can’t focus on anything else but
feeding. And in addition to your
peculiar cravings, you recognize
something else. That primordial
hunger which connects all
hungers. Flesh, blood, meat. You
escape your Darkest Self once
you’ve overindulged, or you’ve
been locked out for long enough
to regain composure.
Eyes: hollow eyes, quiet eyes,
calculating eyes, harsh eyes,
hungry eyes
Origin: resurrected, constructed,
disturbed, rejected, sent
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Ghoul move.
 Take another Ghoul move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You’re part of a Reckless Crew.
Conditions
Ghoul Moves
You get The Hunger, and choose two
more:
 The Hunger
You have a Hunger for (circle 1):
fear, power, plunder, thrills.
When you heedlessly pursue
a Hunger, add 1 to rolls. When
you ignore a promising feeding
opportunity, roll to Keep Your Cool.
 What the Right Hand
Wants
Your body contains many
histories, and it desires many
things. Create another Hunger.
 Satiety
When you satiate a Hunger,
choose one:
 heal 1 Harm;
 mark experience;
 take 1 Forward.
 Short Rest for the Wicked
When you die, wait it out. A few
hours later, you wake up fully
healed.
 Watchful Golem
When you defend someone
without them ever knowing
about it, mark experience.
 Ending
You remember every detail
of your death. When you tell
someone about it, give them the
Condition morbid and roll to Turn
Them On with Cold.
 Esprit de Corpse
When you Gaze Into the Abyss,
the abyss will share with you
its Hunger. Treat that Hunger
as one of your own until you
satiate it, and mark experience
when you do so.

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Sex When you have sex with someone, create a new Hunger.
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Move
Playing the Hollow
Uncertain, unstable, impressionable, and lost. The
Hollow doesn’t have a past, and is struggling to imagine
their future. They’re in the midst of an existential crisis,
and being not-quite-real they can only look to those
around them for the answers.

The Hollow’s two stat options slant toward being

either beautiful enigma (Hot 1 & Dark 2) or an erratic
misfit (Volatile 2 & Dark 1). Their Cold stat is low,
making it hard for them to confront their fears or
stand up to others.

The Hollow is yearning for a sense of self, and clinging

to any labels which seem like they might help cobble
together an identity, which is why so many of their
moves revolve around Conditions.

When you use Strange Impressions, you can gain any of

the Skin Moves on the relevant sheet. You aren’t limited
only to the ones which have been selected for that
character. When you temporarily gain a move in this
way, it doesn’t affect the other character’s access to it.

If the Hollow has sex with more than one person

at once, everyone does the writing and revealing
simultaneously. If the Hollow shared an answer with
one or more characters, that’s the set of characters who
mark experience.

The Hollow
They set out to make something from nothing. It’s not clear whether
they succeeded or not. See, it turns out there’s a lot of grey area between
something and nothing.

You’re alive, but you’re not real. You don’t have a soul. You don’t have child-
Credits hood memories, because you don’t have a childhood. You don’t have parents;
you have makers. And those makers forgot to give you a place in the world.
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Identity
Name: Adam, Baby, Bryce,
Dorothy, Eva, Franklin, January,
Max, Nix, Raymond, Summer
Look: immaculate, disheveled,
haunted, inexperienced, earnest
Your Backstory
You’ve been taking your social
cues from someone, and doing so
has taught you a lot about them.
Gain 2 Strings on them.
Someone’s seen through your
invented past, and realized it’s all
lies. They gain 2 Strings on you.
Eyes: shifty eyes, soulless eyes,
wide eyes, vacant eyes,
desperate eyes
Origin: born of a wish,
a failed experiment, once a toy,
amnesiac, machine
Strings
Hollow Moves
Choose two:
 Better Than Nothing
When you gain a Condition, mark
experience.
 A Blank Canvas
When you take an action that
embodies one of your Conditions,
allowing that Condition to alter
your sense of self, cross it off and
add 1 to your roll.
 Try Harder Next Time
When you screw up, give yourself
an appropriate Condition and
take 1 Forward.
 Fake
Add 1 to any rolls you make while
lying.
 Metamorphosis
When you Gaze Into the Abyss,
on a 7 or higher the abyss
will also show you what you
must become, and you can
permanently swap two of your
stats.
 Strange Impressions
When a main character either
harms you or helps you heal,
you can respond by studying
them with wide eyes. If you do,
temporarily gain one of their
Skin Moves and add it to your
character sheet. It disappears
once you use it.

Darkest Self Harm

Your body is a prison. You don’t
belong inside of it. You need to
put it in harm’s way, and make
it suffer, just like it’s made you
suffer. There’s got to be a way to
cut yourself out of it. You need to
meet your makers, and hold them
accountable for what they’ve
done to you. To escape your
Darkest Self, you must come to
see how someone else feels more
trapped than you do.
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Hollow move.
 Take another Hollow move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You’ve found Hollow Siblings.
Conditions

Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Sex

When you have sex with someone, both players secretly
write down whether the sex was confusing or soothing

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Move for their character. If you reveal the same answer, both
characters mark experience.
Playing the Infernal
Tempted, impulsive, and in over their head. The Infernal
has a demonic patron – someone who gets them things
they want, at an unspecified price. The Infernal plays
with themes of temptation, addiction, and dependency.

The Infernal is extremely powerful while sinking

into debt with their Dark Power, though that pushes
them toward an inevitable crash. The crash isn’t a
punishment to be avoided, but rather a dramatic height
in the character arc. When you play the Infernal, don’t
stop just shy of that fifth String of debt or try to play
it safe. The Infernal is most interesting when they are
swinging chaotically between power and powerlessness.

With Dark Recruiter, the specifics of what it means

to bring someone to the Dark Power is left up to
interpretation and context. It might involve ritual
sacrifice, or a simple introduction at the cafe.

The Strings Attached Bargain plays with the “be careful

what you wish for” trope from stories of witches and
genies. Taking this Bargain communicates to the MC
that you want to be punched in the gut by tragic irony
every now and again.

The Infernal
At first, it seemed innocent. It gave you things, made you feel good about
yourself. You came to it with your problems, and it fixed them. When you
asked how you could return the favour, it told you to be patient - that all
debts would be settled in due time. That was the first time you heard it
mention debts.
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Identity
Name: Baron, Cain, Chloe,
Damien, Logan, Mark, Mika,
Omar, Ophelia, Poe, Yoanna
Look: quiet, frantic, venomous,
spoiled, spooked
Eyes: empty eyes, calculating
eyes, burning eyes, flickering eyes,
piercing eyes
Origin: bartered soul, emissary,
last-chancer, legion, lackey,
chosen
Infernal Moves
You get Soul Debt, and choose one
more:
 Soul Debt
You owe a debt to a Dark
Power. Name it, and choose
two Bargains it has made
with you.
Bargains
Choose two Bargains that the Dark
Power has made with you:
 The Power Flows Through
You
You can give the Dark Power a
String in order to add 2 to your
next roll.

Your Backstory Strings The Dark Power can gain

You owe debts. Give away 3
Strings, divided any way you like
between the Dark Power and the
other characters.
Someone thinks they can save
you. Gain a String on them.
Darkest Self
Strings. If ever it has 5
Strings on you, trigger your
Darkest Self.
 Dark Recruiter
When you bring an innocent
soul to the Dark Power, mark
experience.
 Under Pressure
Harm
If someone has 3 or more
Strings on you, add 1 to
your rolls to carry out their
 Numbing It Out
You can give the Dark Power
a String in order to remove a
Condition or up to two harm.
 Elsewise Power
You can give the Dark Power a
String to use a move you don’t
have, just this once. This move
can come from any Skin.
 Uncanny Voices
You can give the Dark Power a

You find yourself shivering, needy,
and alone. The Dark Power will
make some daunting, open-ended
demands. Every demand fulfilled
brings you closer to feeling whole
again, and removes one of the
Dark Power’s Strings on you. You
escape your Darkest Self when
the Dark Power is out of Strings,
or you make a bargain with an
even more dangerous entity.
Experience

 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Infernal move.
 Take the remaining Bargains.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You supply for Needy Fiends.
Conditions
bidding.
 Can’t Save Myself
When somebody saves you
from forces too powerful
for you to reckon with, they
mark experience, and you
gain a String on them.
String in order to realize a secret
about someone you’re talking to.
The owner of that character will
reveal one of their secret fears,
secret desires, or secret strengths
(they choose which.)
 Strings Attached
You can ask the Dark Power
for something that you really,
really want. The MC will attach a
price to the thing you want, and
hint at an undesired twist in its
nature. If you pay the price, you’ll
get what you’re after.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex When you have sex, the Dark Power loses a String on you

Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move and gains a String on whoever you had sex with.
Playing the Mortal
Vulnerable, magnetic, and beautiful. For anybody else,
giving away a String would represent a loss of control.
For you, it’s more symbiotic - you get power by giving
it away. The Mortal explores co-dependency, power
imbalances, and wide-eyed eagerness.

The two stat choices for the Mortal both have Hot 2,
because the Mortal is desirable and special. They differ
depending on whether the Mortal is more impulsive
and panicky (Volatile 1) or brooding and lonely (Dark 1).

True Love is about who you’ve currently placed at the

center of your universe. You don’t necessarily need to
be in a relationship with someone to declare them your
Lover.

Your Sex Move might seem like a major drawback, but

remember that the Mortal can gain a lot of leverage
from victimhood. Having lovers suddenly get weird,
scary, or hostile after a moment of intimacy gives you
a perfect opportunity to take advantage of moves like
Sympathy Is My Weapon, Excuses Are My Armour, and
Down the Rabbit Hole.

The Mortal
None of them would understand. What you have here, in this dark and
secret place, it’s beautiful. They’d warn you that this sort of beauty is
dangerous, like a raging fire. Well some things are worth getting burned for.

Love has eclipsed all hope, and the dark has left you feeling beautiful.
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Identity
Name: Anne, Carla, Deirdre,
James, Jonathan, Laeli, Patrick,
Robin, Shen, Timothy, Wendy
Look: quiet, desperate, awkward,
beautiful, displaced
Your Backstory
Declare your backstory last.
Choose one person to be your
Lover. Give them three Strings on
you. Take one String on them.
Darkest Self
Nobody understands you. Nobody
even tries. You do so much for
the people you love, and they
walk all over you. Enough is
enough! Betray them. Show them
what its like to be uncared for.
Reveal their monstrosity and
yours. Only seeing the pain that
you’re causing your Lover will let
you escape your Darkest Self.
Hot 2 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: doe eyes, sad eyes,
darting eyes, nervous eyes,
human eyes
Origin: new kid in town,
kid next door, your barista,
someone’s girlfriend,
someone’s boyfriend, nobody
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Mortal move.
 Take another Mortal move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Volatile 1 Dark -1
Mortal Moves  Sympathy is My Weapon
Every time you forgive someone
You gain True Love, and choose two
more:
for hurting you, and excuse their
base nature, gain a String on them.
 True Love  Excuses Are My Armour
You always have exactly one
When you ignore some blatant
Lover. The first is chosen during
problem with your Lover or how
Your Backstory. If you ever fall in
they treat you, mark experience.
love with someone else instead,
give them a String and they
become your new Lover. You  Downward Spiral
When you Gaze Into the Abyss, you
always carry 1 forward to earning
your Lover’s heart or fancy. may cause yourself 1 Harm. If you
do, add 2 to your roll.
 Mess With Me,
 Down the Rabbit Hole
Mess With Him When you go poking your nose in
When using your Lover’s name as
affairs not meant for your kind,
a threat, add 2 to your roll to Shut
someone involved in the situation
Someone Down or Keep Your Cool.
gains a String on you, and you
Your Lover gains a String on you.
mark experience.
 Entrenched
If you and another character have
a combined total of 5 or more
Strings on one another, gain 1 to
all rolls against them.
Sex When you have sex with someone, it awakens something
sinister within. The next time you take your eyes off them,
Move they become their Darkest Self.
Playing the Queen
Popular, dangerous, bitchy, and commanding. The
Queen has a powerful clique who serves as their gang.
Loyalty and control are crucial if the Queen is to retain
their power, but everyone in the clique has their own
set of needs and desires to contend with.

The two stat choices for the Queen allow you to slant
toward being either desirable and commanding (Hot 2
& Cold 1) or cutthroat and secretive (Cold 2 & Dark 1).
Either way, you’re not very good at getting your own
hands dirty – with a low Volatile stat, you depend on
others to fight your battles and keep you safe.

Depending on the origin you pick and your moves, the

Queen can range from being a mundane human teen all
the way to weird cosmic horror. More than any other
Skin, you’re in control of just how supernatural to
make them. Are you a bossy cheerleading captain,
or a brooding alien swarm queen here to repopulate
the earth?

The Queen
You’re one of the special ones. A sovereign beauty. You deserve more than the
rest of this wretched world does. You deserve the will and worship of those
around you.

And it’s not only because you’re better than them. It’s because you make them
Credits better. Stronger, more beautiful, complete. They’d be nothing without you.

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Identity
Name: Burton, Brittany,
Cordelia, Drake, Jacqueline,
Kimball, Raymond, Reyes, Varun,
Veronica
Look: stunning, domineering, icy,
neurotic, talkative
Your Backstory
Name three side characters who
are members of your gang. Gain a
String on each.
You find someone threatening.
Give them a String on you, and
take a String on them.
Darkest Self
They’ve failed you. Again. This
whole mess is their fault, and
why should you have to suffer
the consequences of their idiocy?
You need to make an example
out of each of them -- a cruel
and unwavering example. You
escape your Darkest Self when
you relinquish part of your power
to someone more deserving, or
when you destroy an innocent
person in order to prove your
might.
Hot 2 Cold 1
Hot -1 Cold 2
Eyes: calculating eyes,
captivating eyes, murky eyes,
vacant eyes, pretty eyes
Origin: most popular,
most dangerous, cult leader,
source of the infection,
firstborn of the hive mind
Strings
Harm
Experience

 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Queen move.
 Take another Queen move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take The Clique again and
detail another gang.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark -1
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Queen Moves
You get The Clique, and choose one
more:
 The Clique
You’re at the head of the
toughest, coolest, most powerful
clique around. They count as a
gang. Choose one of the following
strengths for your gang:
 they’re armed (with guns and
real dangerous stuff),
 they’re connected (with
money and designer drugs),
 they’re talented (in a band or
sports team),
 they’re cultists (with dark
oaths and willingness to die).
 The Shield
When you’re surrounded by your
gang, subtract 1 from any rolls
against you.
Sex When you have sex with someone, they gain the Condition
one of them. While the Condition remains, they count as
Move part of your gang.
 Bought Loyalty
You can give a side character a
String on you to tempt them to
do your bidding. The MC will tell
you what sort of bribe, threat,
or coaxing it’ll take to get that
character to do what you want
right now.
 And Your Enemies Closer
When someone betrays you, gain
a String on them.
 Many Bodies
When you promise one of your
gang members to someone, add
2 to your roll to Turn Them On.
When one of your gang members
has sex with someone, it triggers
your Sex Move.
 Streaming
You have a telepathic connection
with your gang members. You can
always hear their emotions and
fears. If you try to hear specific
thoughts, Gaze Into the Abyss
about it and add 1 to your roll.
Playing the Vampire
Icy, manipulative, hypnotic, and cruel. The Vampire
thrives on emotional entrenchment and control. The
Vampire knows how to undermine the will of others,
and often possesses an unsettling attitude toward
consent.

Both stat options showcase the Vampire’s Hot and

Cold nature, passionately romantic one minute and
downright mean the next. Your choice is about which
way the scale tends to lean: sexy or disdainful.

The Vampire has some moves that are downright scary,

not because of anything supernatural, but because
they are calculatingly and intimately violent. Playing a
Vampire means contending with being a person who
wilfully causes harm. Do you work toward redemption?
Do you give in to dark temptation? Remember that
you’re a main character in this story, and that means
having a character arc beyond simply hurting others.
Or, if not, be prepared to have your role change from
protagonist to villain, as the other characters start
sharpening up their stakes.

The Vampire
You are beauty eternal. You are the darkness that everyone wants to taste,
but no one dares understand. It’s there in your eyes, your carefully chosen
words, and your every gesture: you no longer have a soul.

Some vampires revel in that fact, their afterlife a tapestry of hedonism and
Credits exsanguination. Others hate the evil in their skin, solemnly vowing to a
chaste and lonely existence. Either way, someone suffers. The choice is yours.
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Identity
Name: Amanda, Cassius, Clayton,
Helene, Isaiah, Jessamine, Jong,
Lucian, Marcell, Morana, Serina
Look: intense, aloof, predatory,
smoldering, old-fashioned
Eyes: dead eyes, lusty eyes,
pained eyes, hungry eyes,
thirsty eyes
Origin: newly reborn,
taken this century, many ages old,
lord, cursed blood
Vampire Moves  The Feeding
You feed on hot blood, direct
Choose two:
from the source. If this is the first
time they’ve ever been fed upon,
 Invited you both mark experience. When
You cannot enter a home you feed, choose two:
without being invited. Whenever  you heal 1 Harm,
someone invites you in, gain a  you take 1 Forward,
String on them.  they definitely don’t die.

Your Backstory
You’re beautiful. Gain a String on
everyone.
Someone once saved your unlife.
They gain 2 Strings on you.
Darkest Self
Everyone is your pawn, your
plaything. You hurt them and
make them vulnerable, for sport
-- like a cat does with a mouse.
Maybe you’ll even drain them
dry, though you’ll certainly take
your time first. You escape your
Darkest Self when you’re put in
your rightful place, by someone
more powerful than you.
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Vampire move.
 Take another Vampire move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You’re in a Vampiric Coterie.
Conditions
 Hypnotic
You can hypnotize people who
 Marked for the Hunt
Feeding on someone establishes
have no Strings on you. Roll with a preternatural bond. From that
Hot. On a 10 up, they do exactly point forward, whenever you
what you wish and have no idea Gaze Into the Abyss concerning
that anything is wrong. • On their whereabouts or well-being,
a 7-9, the hypnosis works, but roll as if you had Dark 3.
choose one:
 they realize exactly what
 Inescapable
you’ve done to them,
You may spend a String on
 they fuck up your commands,
someone to demand that they
 their sanity is unhinged.
remain in your presence. If they
 Cold as Ice
still walk out on you, gain 2
Strings on them.
When you Shut Someone Down and
roll a 7 or higher, you may choose
an extra option from the list.

Hot 2 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark -1 Sex When you deny someone sexually, gain a String on them.

Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1 Move When you have sex with someone, lose all Strings on them.
Playing the Werewolf
Aggressive, domineering, primal, and amorous. The
Werewolf is primed for violence, and knows that
physical dominance is the root of social power. They
are territorial and dangerous, but they draw people in
with their rough, lusty gorgeousness. Rounding out the
Werewolf is a mystical, animal side: they are strongest
when basked in moonlight and guided by primal
instincts.

Both stat options highlight the Werewolf’s sexy,

dangerous nature. Your choice is about whether they
lean more toward a heart-breaker with a mean streak
(Hot 2 & Volatile 1), or an unpredictable loose-cannon
who it’s dangerous to get too close to (Hot 1 & Volatile
2).

The question of whether you can transform into the

form of a wolf when not your Darkest Self is left up to
individual groups to decide. You have the same stats
and moves regardless of your current form.

The Werewolf
Everyone around you seems so willing to play the roles they are handed, to
quietly colour within the lines. They’ve been tamed, domesticated. You’re of
a different stock: you’ve broken down the fence built to contain you. You’ve
howled at the moon, and heard it howl back.

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Identity
Name: Cassidy, Candika, Flinch,
Levi, Margot, Lorrie, Luna, Peter,
Tucker, Zachary
Look: primal, unkempt, wiry,
rugged, feisty
Your Backstory
You lack subtlety. Give a String to
everyone.
You’ve spent weeks watching
someone from a distance. Their
scent and mannerisms are
unmistakable to you now. Gain
two Strings on them.
Darkest Self
You transform into a terrifying
wolf-creature. You crave power
and dominance, and those are
earned through bloodshed. If
anyone attempts to stand in your
way, they must be brought down
and made to bleed. You escape
your Darkest Self when you
wound someone you really care
about or the sun rises, whichever
happens first.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: cunning eyes,
predatory eyes, fierce eyes,
savage eyes, wolf eyes
Origin: born a wolf, bitten,
raised by wolves, ancestral power,
awoken, favoured by the moon
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Werewolf move.
 Take another Werewolf move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You belong to a Wolf Pack.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark -1
Volatile 1 Dark -1
Werewolf Moves  Heightened Senses
When you rely on your animal
Choose two:
instincts to make sense of a
charged situation, roll with Dark.
 Primal Dominance On a 10 up, ask the MC three
When you harm someone, take a questions from below and take
String on them. 1 Forward. • On a 7-9, ask one
question from below and take 1
 Scent of Blood Forward:
Add 1 to all rolls against those  Where’s my best escape route
who have been harmed in this
or way in?
scene already.  Which enemy is the most
vulnerable to me?
 Howl at the Moon  What’s their secret weakness?
When basked in moonlight, you  What poses the biggest threat
may act as if you had Dark 3. to me?
 Who’s in control here?
 Spirit Armour
 Unstable
When basked in moonlight, any
When you become your Darkest
harm that you suffer is reduced
Self, mark experience.
by 1, and you add 2 to all rolls to
Keep Your Cool.
When you have sex with someone, you establish a deep
Sex spiritual connection with them. Until either of you breaks
that spirit connection (by having sex with someone else)
Move add 1 to all rolls made to defend them. You can tell when
that connection has been broken.
Playing the Witch
Brooding, vengeful, secretive, and occult. The Witch
bides their time, silently judging others until an
opportunity for magical retribution and mischief
presents itself.

The two stat options for the Witch slant toward being
either calculating and venomous (Cold 2 & Dark 1) or
seductive and spooky (Hot 1 & Dark 2). Either way, the
Witch relies on patience to be at the height of their
power. Unless they’re willing to chant in tongues, eyes
swirling a cloudy crimson, their low Volatile stat means
they’re not very good at reacting to unexpected threats.

The best way to keep track of both Strings and

Sympathetic Tokens is to use a different symbol for
each. Since circles are already suggested for Strings,
little stars or triangles would work well for the tokens.
You can keep track of what the physical objects are on
a scrap piece of paper or in the margins of the sheet.

If a character of another Skin takes the Hex-Casting

move without also taking Sympathetic Tokens, the only
way they can cast a Hex is by meeting their target’s
gaze and chanting in tongues – not exactly a subtle
approach.

The Witch
In every lock of hair, every furtive glance, every secret note that transfers
hands during history class – there is an invitation. An invitation to be fucked
with. Not that witchcraft is about fucking with others, exactly, but it’s hard
not to notice how utterly malleable the world is, once you know a thing or
two about magic.
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Identity
Name: Abrielle, Annalee,
Cordelia, Darius, Evelyn, Gerard,
Lucca, Merrill, Sabrina, Vanessa
Look: lithe, guarded, coy, edgy,
meticulous
Your Backstory
You start the game with two
Sympathetic Tokens. Decide
whose and what they are.
One of the others caught you
rummaging through their friend’s
stuff, but hasn’t said anything.
They get a String on you.
Darkest Self
The time for subtlety and
patience is over. You’re too
powerful to put up with their
garbage any longer. You hex
anyone who slights you. All of
your hexes have unexpected side
effects, and are more effective
than you are comfortable with.
To escape your Darkest Self, you
must offer peace to the one you
have hurt the most.
Hot -1 Cold 2
Hot 1 Cold -1
Eyes: calculating eyes, smirking
eyes, playful eyes, wicked eyes,
deep eyes
Origin: taught by grandma,
awoken, pagan initiate, tumblr,
avid reader
Strings + Tokens
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Witch move.
 Take all the remaining Hexes.
 Create a new Hex.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 You belong to a Coven.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Witch Moves
You start with Sympathetic Tokens
and Hex-Casting:
 Sympathetic Tokens
You gain power from
Sympathetic Tokens - items of
personal significance taken from
others. Sympathetic Tokens
count as Strings.
 Hex-Casting
You can cast Hexes. Choose two
that you know. To cast them,
either expend a Sympathetic
Token during a secret ritual, or
meet the target’s gaze and chant
at them in tongues. Then roll
with Dark. On a 10 up, the Hex
works, and can easily be reversed.
On a 7-9, it works but choose one:
 the casting does you 1 Harm;
 the Hex has weird side
effects;
 trigger your Darkest Self.
 Transgressive Magic
If your ritual transgresses the
community’s moral or sexual
standards, add 1 to your Hex-
Casting roll.
 Sanctuary
You have a secret place for
practicing witchcraft. Add 1 to all
rolls you make within this space.
Sex After sex, you can take a Sympathetic Token from them.
Move They know about it, and it’s cool.
Hexes
Choose two:
 Wither
The hexed loses all of their hair,
or their teeth start falling out, or
their period arrives unexpected
and heavy, or their skin gets
all sickly yellow and spotty.
Whatever the specifics, it’s bad.
 Binding
The person cannot physically
harm others.
 Ring of Lies
Whenever the person attempts to
lie, they hear a piercing ringing
noise. Big lies will often make
their knees buckle and disorient
them. Severe lies can cause harm
or even brain damage.
 Watching
You enter a deep sleep, and begin
to see the world through the eyes
of the hexed. You can feel their
reactions to and impressions of
what they are seeing.
 Illusions
Pick one: snakes and bugs,
demonic visages, false prophecies,
non-existent subtext. The hexed
sees that thing everywhere. You
have no control over the exact
images or manifestations.
Playing the Beast
Repressed and afraid of intimacy. The Beast is the one who bottles up their
passions and whose emotions are so locked away that when they do finally
let them out, they explode with a horrible, uncontrollable intensity. The
Beast’s passion transform them into a beast with killer instincts. However
the Beast keeps a connection to others even ion this twisted and malicious
state. They’ll go out of their way to hunt and attack that teacher who
humiliated them, the boy who they had a crush on, or that person who
got in their way. When they finally do return to normal, the Beast may be
horried but they may also secretly have enjoyed giving into their more base
instinct.

Your two stat choices when using the Beast bring forth two distinct ways.
One whose feral nature desperatley seeks to make a normal life and risks
letting the Beast loose (Hot 2, Cold 1), or someone who is mysterious and
reserved and believes that shutting everyone out is the only way to keep
the Beast on lock (Cold 2, Hot 1). The Beast can be an outcast afraid or their
own strength, or a social butterfly whose a ticking time bomb. When the
Beast finally gets loose, there will be hell to pay.

Your Moves will shape the triggers and decide how easy it will be for you
to go Feral, but also the abilities you gain while Feral. Taking Tooth & Claw
turns you into a literal monster and makes you to more akin to hunt those
who have done you wrong. While taking Cat’s Eye increases your ability to
give you an edge over people mentally. If you take the advancement that
gives you a gang, you will discover a group of other Beasts who also suffer
from your condition.

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The Beast
They were called frigid. A prude. An ice queen. Their friends always thought they
were just too uptight, and that they’d be fine if they just loosen up a little. Have
some fun. But they know the truth. When they let go - when they lose control,
even for a moment - they can feel themselves starting to change. The terrible
animal in them is always roaring at the ones they love, always trying to claw its
way out. And when it gets out, people get hurt. And the worst part? Sometimes
they kind of like it.
The Beast knows it’s nature, it’s being, that it’s dangerous, that it needs to kept
away forever. But maybe, just maybe it’s time to let it out.

Identity
Names: Blake, Christina, Etienne,
Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja,
Paul, Simone, Tobias
Look: Pristine, rigid, icy hot,
sculpted, exotic
Your Backstory
Two of the others have asked you
out in the past, but you turned
them down. Take a string on each
of them.
You try not to have strong feelings
about anyone. No one else can
start with more than one string on
you.
Darkest Self
You are an animal. No trace of
your human body or mind remains,
only your most primal emotions -
lust, fear, anger, jealousy, hatred.
You are drawn to anyone you have
such intense feelings for, but your
only means of interacting with
them is to savagely attack them. If
you can’t fnd someone you know,
any target will do. You cannot
escape your Darkest Self until you
take a life.
Hot 2 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Eyes: Intimidating eyes, glacial
eyes, demure eyes, conflicted eyes
Origin: Hexed, drank from a
shapeshifter’s pawprint, cursed
bloodline, deep hypnosis
experiment
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Beast move.
• Take another Beast move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Bloodline of Beasts.
Conditions
Beast Moves
You get Caged Heat, and choose two
more:
• The Caged Heat
Whenever you are turned on, your
inner beast begins to assert itself.
You gain the condition Feral, and
for as long as you have that
condition you may use Hot instead
of Volatile to Lash Out Physically.
You can attempt to Keep Your Cool
in order to remove this condition.
Additionally, while Feral choose
two:
+You mostly retain your human
shape.
+You mostly retain your human
intelligence and personality.
+You mostly retain self-control
over your violent and malicious
impulses
o You Wouldn’t Like Me
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense jealousy, anger, or
hatred in addition to by being
turned on.
o Scaredy Cat
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense fear, shame, or sorrow
in addition to by being turned on.
Sex
Immediately after you have sex with someone, you become
your Darkest Self and gain the condition Feral. That person
Move gains +1 forward when attempting to stop you from your
rampage.
o Beauty & The...
You can spend a string on some-
one to simultaneously turn them
on and shut them down. Roll once
and apply all the results; you may
choose whether to use Hot or Cold
for this roll. On a miss, gain the
condition Feral.
o Tooth & Claw
If you are Feral and have lost your
human shape, add 1 to your roll
when you Shut Someone Down by
frightening them or when you Lash
Out Physically.
o Fight or Flight
If you are Feral and have lost your
human intelligence, when you Lash
Out Physically and roll 10 up you
can pick two options. Roll Cold
instead of Volatile to Run Away.
o Predator & Prey
If you are Feral and have lost your
impulse control, take a string on
anyone at whom you Lash Out
Physically and inflict harm.
o Cat Eyes
When you look into someone’s eyes
and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up
add this option: You know their
deepest fear or secret lust, and add
1 to your roll when using that
information to Shut Them Down or
Turn Them On.
Playing the Believer
Certain, dedicated, paranoid, out of touch, and a bit unhinged. The Believer
is all about following hunches, taking risks, and somethings being
completely wrong. They pursue the special things in the world in the hopes
that they’ll rub off and make them special as well. Their Obsession drives
them in all aspects of their life. The plot implication of their Obsession
aren’t limited only to them. They are not special because of their Obsession,
they’re reaching for something that’s more interesting than the rest of their
life.

The two stat choices of the Believers are similiar but interchanging Hot and
Cold. Your connection to the supernatural is ever present, do you look at
society with ever hopeful eyes hoping to gain potential allies and
acceptance of your theories (Dark 2 & Hot 1)? Perhaps however you scorn
society for how they denied you and called you crazy throughout your
pursuit of knowledge (Dark 2 & Cold 1)? Whether your intention to protect
society or just for your own personal gain is up to you, and your
motivations behind your Obsession should drive your character as it is as
important as your Obsession itself.

Taking moves such as You Gotta Believe Me, and I Know In My Heart will
allow you to stand strong and fight back against most of the people who
would deny your research as fantasy. Not only does this allow you refute
their claims, it may aid as an important tool in recruiting them to your side.
Trust No One and Precaution serve as means to support breaking the rules
and going deep in the danger when it comes to pursuing your Obsession.

Your Darkest Self represents the dark ends that you’ll go to in order to
prove or find what your looking for. You no longer care about the collateral
or how many friends you need to bury before you get what you want. You
built a house of cards that is bound to come down and when it does, it
comes down hard.
The Believer
It all makes sense now. The hidden messages, the secret symbol, all the details
just outside a normal person’s perception that lie just beneath the surface. It
means something, it all has to mean something. You know you’re not crazy, and
once you get the proof you need everyone else will know it too. This is the first
small step in unraveling the whole fucked up mystery.

But remember... knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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Identity
Names: Sanford, Dana, Jose,
Mabel, Finn, Chaos, Ruth, Lucas,
Alex, Walker, Carmela, Neptune
Look: Haggard, shifty, polished,
thin, ostentatious, sunday best,
smelly
Your Backstory
You have some good evidence that
someone you know isn’t human.
Take a String on them.
There is one person that you trust
absolutely, even if they don’t
always see things for what they
are. You’ve even shared your
Obsession with them. Take a String
on them and they take two Strings
on you.
Darkest Self
None of them will listen to you.
Don’t they understand how import-
ant this is to the world? Pursue
your Obsession at all costs, dragging
as many people along as you can. If
you can’t force them, then they’re
just another obstacle on your path
to enlightenment of yourself, and
of others. You escape your Darkest
Self when you come to understand
how much you have hurt others by
your obsessive behavior.
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Eyes: Distant eyes, wide eyes, dart-
ing eyes, confident eyes, worrying
eyes
Origin: Gloryhound, a legacy,
close encounter, the people must
know
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Believer move.
• Take another Believer move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in an Investigation Squad.
Conditions
o Always Watching
Believer Moves When someone is talking about
You get The Truth is Out There, and you or your Obsession, you may
one more move. give them a String to bust in half-
cocked and carry 1 forward to
• The Truth is Out There pursuing your Obsession for that
You have an Obsession with a scene.
person, group, location, event or
object. When you satisfy your o Precaution
curiosity and find something new When pursuing your Obsession, and
about your Obsession, mark
you’re in over your head, reduce
experience. When you believe any harm you take by 1 and add 1
you’ve learned everything you can to any rolls you make to Keep Your
about your Obsession, change it to Cool. If someone is aiding you in
something new. When you reveal your investigation, they also gain
your Obsession to someone for the this benefit.
first time, they take a String on
you. o Trust No One
When you go behind the back of
o You Gotta Believe Me
an authority figure to pursue your
When you preach to the nonbe-
Obsession, mark experience. If you
lievers roll with Hot. On a 10+,
are caught, add 1 to your roll to
they take your side or they gain
Run Away this scene.
the condition Conspirator. On a
7-9, they give you a condition and o I Know in My Heart
choose one:
When you ignore the evidence and
+ You take a string on them.
+ They promise something they
double down on what you already
believe, add 1 to all your rolls to
think you want.
Shut Someone Down and
+ They make a run for it.
Turn Someone On for the rest of the
scene.
o Super Sleuth
When you go hunting for physical
evidence, roll to Gaze Into the Abyss.
If anyone is aiding you, give them a
String and add 1 to your roll. On a
hit, you receive some sort of
physical clue to your investigation.
Sex When you have sex with someone, whichever one of you is more
Move immersed in the supernatural take two Strings on the other.
Playing The Bogeyman
Intense, pushy, thrilling and going a bit too far. The
Bogeyman thrives for horror and danger, never quite
satisfied with the scares they do get. They are an
adrenaline junky or horror movie fan that goes further
and further every time, regardless of the consequences.

The Bogeyman’s stat lines both show off an attraction

to danger and the bizarre, Volatile and Dark. They differ
in whether you find pleasure in physical danger, or
whether you like a more creepy, atmospheric mood.

The Bogeyman likes to freak people out. Stalker in the

Night can lead into Fear-Eater can lead into A Scary Kind
of Sexy. When forcing other characters to Keep Their Cool,
it’s up to them what they’re scared of, but up to you and
the MC what the consequences for failure will be.

Deeper Than Before turns The Abyss into someplace you

can physically visit. Work with the MC to determine
what it looks like when you step into it, and ask
questions; if you show up in someone else’s visions, are
you in danger from their version of The Abyss? Or are
you just an intangible ghost, there to watch but not
interfere?

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The Bogeyman
You’re always looking for the next fright, the next danger, the next thing to
push you on this wild ride called life. Horror movies or walking down dark
alleyways... doesn’t matter. Who cares if the things you like are considered
‘scary,’ or ‘dangerous,’ or ‘could get someone killed?’
You’ll have the time of your life, no matter what happens. The creepy and
weird is your ocean, and you’re the shark who can’t stop smiling.
Identity
Name: Kallen, Mags, Jack, Blake,
Coco, Ebony, Slash, Senna, Teller,
G.E, Caliban, Lexie
Look: grinning, ragged, dark oil,
niche cosplay, antique
Your Backstory
Someone gives you chills - the
bad kind - when you look at
them. Give them a String on you.
You whispered to someone from
the dark. Take a String on them.
Darkest Self
People thought you were creepy
and dangerous before... just they
wait and see. Give them a reason
to really be scared. Fear isn’t
enough, it’s time for blood and
knives and hunting. Everyone is
victim or fellow hunter, and
there are no in-betweens. You
escape your Darkest Self once
something comes along that
scares even you, or someone you
thought was a victim messes you
up.
Eyes: pitch eyes, intense eyes,
vengeful eyes, hunting eyes, dragged
eyes
Origin: from the abyss, someone’s fear,
urban legend, creep, horror movie fan
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Bogeyman move.
❍ Take another Bogeyman move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You lurk with a Creep Cohort.
Conditions
Bogeyman Moves
You get Fear Eater, and choose one
more:
● Fear-Eater
When you’re trying to frighten
someone, you can spend a String
to force them to Keep Their Cool. If
they’re a side character or roll a 7-
9, they pick one:
✦ I freeze up, giving you a
moment to act.
✦ I panic and flee.
✦ I scream in shock. Give me a
Condition.
❍ A Scary Kind of Sexy
When you show someone how
freaky and dangerous it really is
to be around you, roll to Turn
Them On with Volatile.
❍ Stalker In the Night
You can see in the dark and make
no sound unless you want to.
When someone is in the dark, any
harm they inflict on you is
reduced by 1, and you can give
away that you’re there use Fear
Eater without spending a String
on them.
❍ That’s Why They’re
Monsters
When someone tells you what
scares them, you both mark
experience and you take a String
on them.
❍ Not a Wuss, Are You?
When you ask someone to go
somewhere obviously dangerous
with you, give them a Condition if
they refuse, and mark experience
if they accept.
❍ Deeper Than Before
When you want to go into The
Abyss itself, Gaze Into the Abyss.
On a 10 up, when you look away,
you will be in The Abyss; you can
traipse around in it or even show
up in other people’s visions. On a
7-9, pick 1.
✦ The MC gives you a Condition
as you arrive.
✦ Something follows you out of
the Abyss.
✦ Trigger your Darkest Self the
next time you see someone.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex When you have sex with someone, ask them if you are
scary. If they say yes, take a String on them. If they say no,

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 Move give yourself a Condition.

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.
Playing the Calaca
Disarming, cute, freakish, and yet so cheerful. The Calaca is the happiest
person dressed in funeral blacks you’ve ever seened, a wise confidant who
gives the most profound advice one moment, writing odes to death and
decay while using a brightly colored pen. Your Haunting Visage might be
horrificially terrifying but that doesn’t change your devious sunny
disposition. Solve the problems brought forth to you and make sure,
whoever they are, remembers your name.

Your two stat choices both have Dark 2 because of your connection to
death itself, and how integral it is to you. But your secondary stat will
shape your actions, are you the party spirit who tells people to accept death
as a new beginning rather than the end (Dark 2 & Hot 1) or do you show
people how cruel and forebearing death really is, a literal spirit of death,
wings and all. (Dark 2 & Cold 1) The Calaca doesn’t capitlize on
oppurtunities, rather it creates them.

Moves such as Sugar Skull and Morte Alata make your Haunting Visage ever
stronger, allowing you supplment most of your moves for your strongest
stat. Pick those moves if you intend to be in your true form alot and want
to get your mileage out of it. Moves like Day of the Dead and Santa Muerte
are wild card that can change your entire pace pace around. Helping people
you care about especially by giving them guidance should be one of your
main priorities. Your story is the story how made other people’s stories
better. Your meddling creates drama but you best believe they’ll remember
you at the end of it all.

Your Darkest Self is dangerous and dark to the say the least, your wisdom
is even more profound and yet cruel. Convince your friends that death is
not the end, it’s the beginning and a beginning they shouldn’t wait to get
started.
Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo by Ruines Humaines
The Calaca
Death is not the end, in fact it is only the beginning. This is what the Calca
believes. Instead of regretting their death like that of the Ghost, or just barely
hanging in as a corpse like the Ghoul, the Calaca is the embodiment of living
it as one of the dead. They want to teach others what death has taught them,
impart the lessons they’ve had over the years. They ocassionally begin to miss
the pleasantries that they had when they were alive, but who cares being dead is
awesome.
However sometimes they don’t want to accept your knowledge or your gift of
death and you can understand. If you could see how great being dead was why
can’t they? Maybe they need a little push, from your friendly walking, talking
skeleton.

Identity
Names: Cal, Catrina, Charity,
Grace, Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel,
Mercedes, Scully
Look: Skin like porcelain, gothic
lolita, deathly pale, painted face,
rail thin
Your Backstory
Someone is actually a long lost
descendant of yours, take a String
on them.
Someone has seen you transform-
ing into your true form, give them
a String.
Darkest Self
Your sweetness and humor is a
mask, you have denied your true
nature far too long. Spent too
much time teaching others to not
to fear death and not enough time
teaching them to embrace it. Twist
your words and teachings, bring
forth others to join your black
parade. You can only escape your
Darkest Self when someone
teaches you to love life again, or
when you drive someone to take
their own life.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold -1
Eyes: Hollow eyes, gleaming eyes,
wise eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes
Origin: Bone elemental, corpse
bride, death spirit, neromantic
construct, summoned ancestor
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Calaca move.
• Take another Calaca move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re apart of a Family Legacy.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Volatile 1 Dark 2
o Morte Alata
Calaca Moves In your true form, you possess
You get Haunting Visage and choose a pair of bony wings. Roll Dark
two more: instead of Volatile to run away by
escaping into the air.
• Haunting Visage
At any time you can transform into
o Santa Muerte
your true skeletal form. If anyone When you help another character
witnesses this process, they take a come to terms with the concept
string on you. You roll Dark instead of death or the death of someone
else, mark experience and roll to
of Cold to Shut Someone Down, and
cause people to Keep Their Cool in Make Others Feel Beautiful.
your presence. You can’t Turn
Someone On while using this move.
o Day of the Dead
When you throw a party or
o Ofrendas celebration, it invigorates you. You
When someone offers something may use a move from any playbook
to them in your name, give them once for that scene only.
advice on their issue. If you do
Gaze into the Abyss, if you roll a hit
choose one:
+Your visions show what they
must do, they carry 1 forward.
+The visions heal your friend,
they may remove one condition.
+Take a string on your friend.
o Mi Memoria
When you take your fourth harm,
depart from this plane and to the
land of the dead. As long as you
still have strings on a single person
you may return.
o Sugar Skull
You are more pleasant than most
others in your visage, you can roll
to Turn Someone On while in your
true form. When using this move
roll with Dark instead of Hot.
Sex When you have sex with someone, ask them if they will always
Move
remember you. If they say yes, treat it as you had used Ofrendas
and rolled a 10+. Choose all three options instead of one.
Playing the Creature
Protective, territorial, vengeful, and hopeful. The Creature is embodiment of
mother nature rising up to protect itself from industrial expansion.
Whether it be preventing a company from dumping toxic waste into a body
of water, turning a forest preserve into a landfill, using animals in
experiments, or hunting endangered species, the Creature will be there to
stop them. A sort of nature vigilante, the Creature has a cause that they will
pursue considering it their highest priority.

Your two stat choices both have Volatile 2 because your naturally pissed off
that someone is threatening your cause. Whether or not you still believe
that humans can be turned around with some prodding (Volatile 2 and Hot
1) or perhaps that they are beyond reason (Volatile 2 & Cold 1), you put your
environment and your cause first before anything else.

Moves such as Cold-Blooded Fury and Apex Predator allow you to become
more monster than protector. Allowing you to take harm they attempt to
dish out and inflict it right back, but be careful once you draw blood you
might find it hard to avoid all out war against your opposition. Songbird
allows you to make rousing speeches and pursue non-violence, with Frog
Kiss being important when your taking that special someone on a magic
carpet ride of your environment.

Your Darkest Self is when you decide that you can’t stop the inevitable and
perhaps it’s better to turtle up and make best of the time you have. The
bulldozers will be here before dawn, so enjoy the last night you have in
your home. Sometimes you find that you cause is properly protected, and in
that case just take up a new cause to champion towards.
The Creature
All that time and energy on a petition - all the convincing, all the seducing, all
the threatening - and what do they get when they present city hall with a
thousand signatures? They throw it in the trash, and continue to destroy their
home anyway. The Creature wanted to do things peacefully perhaps, they
wanted to believe in the good of man to protect something precious to them.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo from The Shape of Water
But it didn’t work out that way, and now it’s time for plan b. If they won’t read
the signatures, listen to the protests, or speak at the debates then it’s time they
felt the horror of a pissed off monster. Maybe when the town has been
terrorized they’ll finally get it through their thick heads.

Identity
Names: Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil,
Jake, Jenny, Laguna, Madison,
Ramon, Rico, Thetis
Look: Swimmer’s build,
olive-skinned, nearly hairless,
surfer’s tan, fishy smell
Your Backstory
Someone who once an ally to your
cause. They take 2 Strings on you.
You know someone is secretly
involved in workings against your
cause. Take 2 Strings on them.
Eyes: Aquamarine eyes, teary eyes,
limpid eyes, wide-set eyes, black
eyes
Origin: Last of your kind,
chemical spill exposure, first of
your kind, cryptid, magic
Strings
Creature Moves
You get Missing Link and one more.
• Missing Link
Pick an environment, you are
completely adaptable to it. If it’s
a body of water you can breathe
underwater, if it’s a cave system
you can see in the dark and etc.
Additionally, you have a cause
related to your environment. You
get +1 forward to all actions taken
to further your cause.
o Cold-Blooded Fury
When you are filled with righteous
anger in the service of your cause,
you can do extra harm when you
lash out physically.
o Frog Kiss
When you kiss someone while in
your environment to impart the
same adaptability to possess for a
scene. Roll with Hot, on a 10+ they
o Eco-Terrorism
When you turn to violence and
sabotage in order to further your
cause, mark experience and take
a String against someone who is
against your cause.
o Apex Predator
You can shed your human skin to
become a scaly monstrosity. In this
form, you take 1 less harm from
any attack down to a minimum
of 0. You cannot Turn Someone On
and can roll with Volatile to Shut
Someone Down.
o Territorial
Your environment is also your
territory. When you rest in your
territory, clear all conditions and
heal 1 Harm. If someone invades
your territory, you get +1 forward
to attempts to remove intruders
from your territory.

Darkest Self Harm

Everything sucks and nothing you
do can change that. It’s time to
leave this world, grab the
person you care about the most
and retreat back to your
environment. Defend it against
anyone and everyone, and ignore
the rest. You can’t make a differ-
ence anyway. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone shows
you that you’ve changed things for
the better.
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Creature move.
• Take another Creature move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You join some Environmentalists.
Conditions
take to it fine and adapt as normal.
On a 7-9, their body reacts weird
and they take either 1 Harm or a
condition. On a miss, this fails
completely and are harmed greatly.
o Songbird
When you speak passionately to
convince someone to join your
cause, roll with Volatile. On a 10+,
they mark experience if they help
you. On a 7-9, you take a String on
them. On a miss, they take a String
on you.

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Sex When you have sex with someone, treat protecting them as part

Move
of your cause until you have sex with someone else. Additionally,
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 treat them as if you had rolled a 10+ while using Frog Kiss.
Sex Move
Once you've had sex with someone,
add 1 to your rolls for passing as them.
(List them here, and also add +1's to
your outfit list.)
People you've slept with:
Darkest Self
Somebody is a hack at playing
themselves in their own life. It
grates on you. It's time for you, the
understudy, to take that place in
the spotlight; you portray them so
much better than they do. It's time
to take them out of the picture, using
whatever means necessary. Replace
them. You escape your Darkest Self
when something they do surprises
you, or someone shows a genuine care
for them, or you succeed.
Advancement
 Take another Cuckoo move.
 Take another Cuckoo move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You've got a Flock of Wannabes.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
This Skin written by Jackson Tegu for:
Monsterhearts Second Skins
photographsoflightning.com/mhss
Playing The Cuckoo Others' lives are just so fascinating.
That's why you want to walk a mile
Playful, jealous, magical, spiteful. The in their shoes... and pants... and
Cuckoo is a clothes-stealing magical shirt. That's why you want to look
shapeshifter. Play this Skin if you out through their
want to mess with other people's eyes, make a few
relationships and play with gender.
promises with their
voice and maybe
The magic of Feathers lets you
be partially undressed passing as kiss someone via
someone and have sexual organs like those sweet lips.
theirs instead of yours. You can only
pass as one person at a time, and
when you're totally naked, you're you. Look at that smile.
Guarding the secret of your
You could be
anyone.
shapechanging might slow down
the story. Shredding the Looking Glass
provides a disincentive to uncover you;
it also interacts with Close To The Sun.
If you have Strings that you got while
passing as someone else, they can be
explained as new things you've learned
about that person rather than social
The Cuckoo
power they've ceded to you.
With That Good, your impression is so
polished that those interacting with
you can learn something new about
the actual person you're passing as.
Without it, Strings others gain on you Name Look
might be fruitfully confusing. That's ok! Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Alex, Checha, Coby, Francis, Garnett, sleek, flashy, comfortable,
Using A Little Bird Told Me is like
shutting people down who aren't even Jay, Jamie, Kealoha, Robin, Taylor exuberant, eclectic
in the scene.
an androgynous name, tempting eyes, knowing eyes,
an unconventional name, innocent eyes, flirty eyes, vibrant eyes
Facts about real cuckoos
an artist's name, a bird name,
a name of replacement
Cuckoos parasitically lay their eggs
in other species' nests. The host birds Origin
then raise the young cuckoos, often Circle one:
feeding them before their own young.
If there isn't enough to go around, the foster kid, left in a basket, miracle baby,
host's own children starve. When the from the stars, middle child
nestling cuckoos first hatch, many
eliminate their nestmates by pushing
them over the side.
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot 1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark -1
 you're wearing below. • On a 7-9, same
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)
 1 forward to rolling with volatile, and
Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
 Condition, but some people don't
Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You've stolen an outfit from someone.
Record it under Outfits and gain a
String on that person.
Someone gave you an outfit so that
you could impersonate them - discuss
with them and decide why. Record
it under Outfits and you each get a
String on one another.
Carry Forward Cuckoo Moves  Close To The Sun
When someone suspects that you're
You get these two, and choose one more: not who you appear to be, mark
experience.
 Feathers
Your magic lets you pass as the person
whose clothes you're wearing. When
 That Good
While you're passing as someone, if
you're seen wearing someone else's anyone would gain a String on you,
Conditions clothes, but aren't yet passing, roll
with hot. On a 10 up, you're passing
they instead gain it on the person
you're passing as.
as them - you'd fool their mother and
their favorite hookup. Mark the outfit
 Brood Parasite
When you can tell that someone wants
as above, but choose one:
what you have, or wants to be in your
SS the magic will dissipate if you kiss
shoes, gain a String on them.
or get kissed,
SS the magic will dissipate if you lash
Notes out at anyone.  Jumping Out Of Clocks
When you disrobe for someone, take
While you're passing as someone, give
social Conditions you receive to them they choose:
instead. Physical Conditions still stick SS offer you an experience point to
do what they want,
to you. Anyone who takes Feathers also
gets Shredding the Looking Glass. SS trigger your Darkest Self.
 Shredding the Looking Glass  A Little Bird Told Me
When someone suspects you're not When you blab vicious lies about
someone behind their back, roll
Harm
who you appear to be, read them this:
"If the enchantment were to be with cold. On a 10 up, give them a
broken, the edges would be very sharp. Condition. • On a 7-9, give them a
You momentarily notice a gap in my
believe you, so gain the Condition liar.
Experience Points:
magic. Choose one:
SS tear my magic away - my identity
is revealed and the clothes are in

>> advance
tatters, but you get scratched up
in the process and take 1 harm,
Strings SS or, shake your head to clear it - it
was nothing." Other Moves
Outfits (Mark while passing as)
You can collect more than four, of course.




Playing the Faithful
Judgemental, hypocritical, supportive and commited. The Faithful is
someone who puts their trust in their belief even when they fall short of
their own expectations. The Faithful may lead to questioning the existence
of higher powers, but they also can bring some interesting conflicts with
the supernatural characters forward; especially those with an aversion to
religous symbols.

Your two stat choices both do not mire themselves with Dark, as doing so
would only lead to temptation further down the road. Whether you choose
to preach your word and use your natural charisma to keep to your faith
(Hot 2 & Volatile 1), with a dash of zealotry in the mix or are hypercritical
of these sinners around you (Cold 2 & Hot 1), the road of the Faithful is
about weathering doubt, navigating temptation, and sticking to your faith.

Breath of Life is your most powerful move at your disposal but with having
to tap into Dark, it’s risky and has the potential to harm not only yourself
but the others around you greatly. This move, along with Stigmata and
Unshakeable grant you the ability to defend yourself those who would
tempt you as long as you have a String before hand to spare. If you don’t,
you’ll find yourself drained and having to clear the condition before using
them again. Sanctuary can help with this and any other nasty conditions
and harm you might take throughout your story.

The Faithful is one who can stop and deter violence in their tracks and
avoid those who would attempt to brush aside them. Meant to handle any-
thing thrown at them, however eventually things will break and when they
do it’s going to be biblical. Once you enter your Darkest Self, it’s goodbye
prayer groups and hello smiting the wicked or whoever manages to piss
you off. Sure, it might seem unorthodox, but you know you’ll be forgiven in
the end.
The Faithful
Lost among a sea of ignorance and what they call sin, the Faithful is the lone
paragon amonster the rest. They know the others have no idea what faith is, or
have the humility to commit themselves to anything beyond their petty wants.
But for the Faithful that is ok, it is there job to show them. They’ll preach to
whoever’ll listen and save their souls whether they want it or not.

But your commitments wouldn’t be meaningful without temptation lurking.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by author unknown and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo by Maria Marchetti
Your body screams at you to betray your sacred promises. Your faith may grant
you strength, but it’s not always easy to stand up for what’s right. It’s hard for
you to be strong all the time, and something’s gotta give.
We all need forgiveness for something, right?

Identity
Names: Rebecca, Rachael, Noah,
Chastity, Jacob, David, Michael,
Leah
Look: Cheery, reserved, average,
strong, old-fashioned
Your Backstory
You watch everyone, practically
unnoticed, waiting for them to slip
up. Take a String on everyone.
Someone knows your greatest sin.
They take 2 Strings on you.
Darkest Self
The judgment of the Heaven and
the divine is upon them! You see
sin and corruption all around you,
and it’s your mission to stamp
it out, burn the wicked and cast
down the prideful! No longer will
they mock you for your beliefs.
You’ll create hell on earth to
save their souls. You escape your
Darkest Self when you repent and
someone forgives you of your
wrongdoings.
Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: Sentimental eyes, judgmen-
tal eyes, glimmering eyes, green
eyes
Origin: Raised that way, born
again, back on the wagon, simple
faith, guided by a divine power
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Faifthul move.
• Take another Faithful move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re apart of a Church Group.
Conditions
Volatile 1 Dark -1
Faithful Moves
You choose two:
• Martyr
When you take harm because you
were helping or protecting
someone, mark experience and
take a String on whoever you were
helping or protecting.
o Eye for an Eye
When someone gives you a
condition, give them a condition in
return. If you were already going
to give them a condition, add 1 to
your next roll against them instead.
o Unshakeable
When another PC tries to Turn You
On or Shut You Down, and you do
not have the condition drained you
may spend a String or gain the
condition drained to have their roll
be shifted one category lower. (10+
to 7-9, 7-9 to a miss.)
o Stigmata
When someone inflicts harm in
your presence, and you do not have
the condition drained you may
spend a String on them or gain the
condition drained to have them
take the harm as well.
Sex When you deny someone sexually, gain the condition tempted
Move
and take a String on them. When you have sex with someone,
you lose all your Strings on them and remove a condition.
o Sanctuary
Whenever you pray and consecrate
a safe place for another, if they
spend a night there with you, both
of you may remove a condition and
heal 1 Harm.
o Breath of Life
When you lay your hands on a
wounded person and do not have
the condition drained roll with
Dark. On a 10+, they heal all harm
and you gain a String on them. On
a 7-9, choose one:
+ They heal all harm and you
take that harm instead.
+ They heal all harm and some-
one nearby (MC’s call) takes that
harm afterward.
Afterward, give yourself the
condition drained.
When you lay your hands on
someone recently dead and you
don’t have the condition drained,
don’t roll, they come back from the
dead and choose one:
+ Someone nearby dies (MC’s
call)
+ You die
+ Something powerful and dark
comes back with them.
Afterwards, give yourself the
condition drained.
Notes on The Firestarter
_________________________________________
Keep notes on this page.

The Firestarter
You’ve always thought fire was beautiful, the way it dances and sways; as a
child you couldn’t look away. You were always touching candles and reaching
for the hot stove top.

There was a time when that’s all it was. You remember being able to feel cool,
calm, relaxed. But then you began to see everything wrong with the world.
Credits
_________________________________________ So much to hate. A fire grew in your chest, a heat behind your eyes.
It fed itself inside you until you felt like you wanted to blow smoke.
This is a Skin by Orion Canning for Monsterhearts by Avery Alder (buriedwith-
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Identity
Name
Aidan, Ashley, Blaze, Diesel, Ho-
taru, Ignacio, Phoenix, Scarlet,
Shula, Tyson
Look
scarred, bombshell, frenetic,
oily, dangerous
_________________________________________
Your Backstory
You started a really big fire once.
What were you thinking about
when you started it? Add that to
your hate list. Who saw you do it?
Give them a String on you.
Someone got too close to you and
got burned. Now they’re just an old
_________________________________________
flame. Gain 2 Strings on them.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Turn Someone On Shut Someone Down Lash Out Physically
_________________________________________
Keep Your Cool
Darkest Self
Burn ‘em. Burn ‘em all.
Maybe they deserve it. Maybe they
just annoy you. Either way they
are going to learn what it means
to hurt. Go after each thing on
your hate list, one by one, until
you cross them all out. If there’s
nothing left on your hate list, turn
on yourself. After all, you deserve
to be at the top of that list, for all
your flaws and hypocrisy. Look at
the blood on your hands. No one
deserves to be hurt more than you.
You escape your Darkest Self when
someone proves they’re on your
side, or when you’re engulfed in
flames.
Eyes Firestarter Moves
smoldering eyes, desperate You get these two, and one more.
eyes, gleeful eyes, hard eyes,
l Hate List
blank eyes, cruel eyes
You keep a list of things you hate.
Origin When you hate something write it
lone survivor of a fire, spoiled on your hate list. When you forgive
rotten, product of abuse, test or destroy something on your hate
subject, child of the revolution list, cross it out. If it was destroyed
also mark experience. Normally
Strings
you can’t have more than 3 entries
on your hate list at once.
l Temper
When you think about how much
you hate something on your hate
list, choose something that bursts
into flame and roll with volatile.
On a 10 up, the fire catches and
burns. • On a 7-9, as above, but
choose 2:
~ someone realizes you caused it,
Volatile 2 Dark -1 ~ it spreads out of your control,
Gaze Into the Abyss ~ you gain the Condition drained,
Run Away ~ that thing takes little harm.
Harm
m Explosive
qqqq You’re like a bomb waiting to go
Experience mmmmm
off. When you take your fourth
harm, deal four harm to everyone
nearby.
m Add +1 to one of your stats.
m Take a Firestarter move. Hate List:
m Take a Firestarter move.
m Take a move from any Skin.
m Take a move from any Skin.
m You command a Group of
____________________
Vandals.
Conditions
_________________________________________
When you have sex with someone, talk about the things you
Sex
hate. They choose: tell you what’s good about something on
+1 Forward
Move
your list and cross it out, or tell you what they hate most and
add it to your hate list, even if it’s full.
m Fire Walk With Me
You and anything you’re touching
are immune to flame.
m Fool’s Fire
When someone seeks your
romantic attention and either
bungles the attempt or you refuse
their advances, give them the
Condition moth to the flame.
You add 1 to rolls to shut down or
lash out against people with the
Condition moth to the flame. They
mark experience if you have sex
with them.
m Hot In Here
You have a way of lowering other
peoples’ inhibitions. After you turn
someone on or lash out physically,
everyone there (including you) adds
1 to further rolls to turn someone
on or lash out physically until you
leave.
m Kindling
When you tell someone what you
wish would happen to something
on your hate list, roll with hot.
On a 10 up, they choose: do it and
mark experience, or don’t do it and
you get a String on them. • On a
7-9, instead they choose:
~ they do it but you’re blamed for it
~ they’ll help you do it,
~ they don’t do it and you add them
to your hate list even if it’s full.
m Tongue of Flame
You can pull Strings on fire as if it
were an NPC.
Playing the Freshman
Unformed, naïve, uncertain, and immature. The
Freshman is just beginning to truly engage with
the world around them, and finding out that it’s
more complicated than it used to be. The
Freshman is not necessarily an actual ninth grader,
but they haven’t quite come into their monstrosity yet.

Representing their clean slate, the Freshman never

starts out with positive or negative stats, and does
not have the opportunity to change this. This
allows them to take one of the stat lines from
whatever Skin they graduate to.

At the start of the game, the Freshman’s abilities

are limited. The Skin allows for three total
advances from earning experience, but they can
graduate to a different Skin whenever their player
feels ready. If you know ahead of time what the
Freshman’s future holds, great — the MC should
work that into the game. It’s also okay to
be uncertain going in.

When you graduate to a new Skin, change

whatever Identity elements you want to change.
Fill out the new Backstory elements. Discard your
moves, Strings, Conditions, and any leftover
experience. You’re a new person now: act like it.

If playing a game where all characters start out

as the Freshman, play until the last member

The Freshman
0f the group has chosen their new Skin, then
wrap up the Season.

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Being a teenager sucks. Your parents think you’re still a little kid. Your
teachers want you to grow up. It’s impossible to tell from one day to the
next if someone’s a friend or a foe. No one gets you, but they all think they
know you. How can they know you when you don’t even know yourself?
Your classmates won’t let you live down a single mistake, so tread
carefully, kid. You don’t want to go from fresh meat to dead meat, do you?

Identity
Name: Archie, Diego, Eun-ho,
Ginger, Jenny, Jules, Munya,
Ned, Rashid, Rue, Spinner, Viva
Look: reticent, childish, ill at
ease, confident, ungainly
Your Backstory
Someone witnessed your most
embarrassing moment. They
gain a String on you.
You’re keeping someone’s
biggest secret. Take a String
on them.
Darkest Self
Everything was simpler when
you were a kid. You could
cry and scream and hit as
hard as you wanted, and
happiness was so simple to
come by. You take refuge in
the impulsive, aggressive
actions of your childhood,
and lash out at anyone
asking you for more. You
escape your Darkest Self
when you let yourself be
vulnerable with someone
you care for.
Eyes: eager eyes, innocent
eyes, naïve eyes, nervous eyes,
frightened eyes
Origin: new, popular kid’s
little sibling, skipped a grade,
homeschooled, army brat
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Take another Freshman move.
❍ Take another Freshman move.
❍ Choose a new Skin.
Conditions
❍ Strike A Violent Pose
Freshman Moves When you Lash Out Physically
You gain I’m Just A Kid, and choose
against a friend, add 1 to your roll
one more:
and take an appropriate Condition,
or subtract 1 from your roll and
● I’m Just A Kid take a String on them.
When you use your youth and
naivete to get out of a difficult
❍ Our Cracking Bones
situation, take an appropriate
When you tend to someone else’s
Condition and gain a String on
wounds, gain a String on them.
another person involved.
❍ It’s Brutal Out Here
When you offer support to
someone else, by listening to them
vent or being a shoulder to cry on,
gain a String on them.
❍ Life Is A Nightmare
When you Gaze Into The Abyss and
roll a 7 or higher, take a Condition
that reflects your reaction to what
you see, and mark experience.

Hot 0 Cold 0 Volatile 0 Dark 0 Sex When you have sex with someone, tell each other
your greatest insecurity. If either of you lies, take 2

Hot 0 Cold 0 Volatile 0 Dark 0 Move Strings on the other.

Playing the Fury
Desperate, longing to be accepted and the rage, and constantly pushed
around. The Fury is one that knows rejection and pain well. The Fury
balances their life as depicted in Futile Hope. An engine that drives their life,
ability and most importantly their scorn. The Fury operates around putting
themselves out there, willingly trusting and believing in people even though
they know they shouldn’t, and when they are betrayed they are ready to
massively overreact to the provider of that betrayl.

The two stat choices for the Fury describe two very different but equally
powerful beings. The Fury who when pushed to the edge who physically
lashes out with everything forcing others to feel the very real pain the Fury
suffers (Volatile 2, Dark 1) or the Fury that when pushed to the brink
becomes emotionally numb to everything around them and takes
advantage of the emotional vunerabilities of their fellow teens (Cold 2, Dark
1). The Fury is usually but not always an outcast, but perhaps they are a
well respected member of their community but misunderstood. Whatever
the Fury’s deal is, you can bet it’s going to be a story that doesn’t end well
for them.

Your fellow players will have an incentive to be nice to you and then dump
you, taking advantage of gaining strings against you while forcing you to
lose the strings against them. But their temporary gain is ultimatley the
Fury’s greatest weapon. Being Betrayed is to your advantage since it powers
up all your Fury moves and provides lots of grist for the drama mill. Think
carefully when choosing your moves about what kind of walking
megapsychic catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter doesn’t need to imply
pyrokinesis; it’s just a name and can represent any ability that causes chaos
and destruction. Some of the moves are more themed around telepathy or
clairvoyance than the others, which allow you to enact your Fury in much
more devious ways.
When you are your Darkest Self, be sure to go all out with your
descriptions. Your moves can affect crowds and radically alter the
environment when you’re in a full-on rage, so cut loose and enjoy your
revenge.
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This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Art created by Youth Ministry
The Fury
They never wanted this. They never wanted to be different or special or a freak.
They wanted to fell like every other kid and just fit in. To be liked. To be accept-
ed. Maybe even to be loved. They never felt like it was so much to ask for? The
Fury is not a bad person, not inheritantly. However the Fury is drawn to their
abilities by their circumstances. They were hurt, they were betrayed. They were a
bottle of emotional trauma that has been shaken up one too many times. Guess
what? Now that bottle is ready to pop.
We always expect those that are pushed around to finally push back. But never
like this. The Fury is unbridled anger and power, a teenager scorn. The Fury
knows in their being that if they cannot be loved, then damn well they will be
feared. Feared by everyone.

Identity
Names: Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie,
Charlie, Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will
Look: Raggedy, unfashionable,
nerdy, nervous, beneath notice,
frightened
Your Backstory
You have a secret crush on some-
one. Take a string on them.
Someone has been bullying you.
Give them a string on you.
Darkest Self
Nobody loves you. Nobody ever
will. They only pretended to like
you so they could hurt you even
more. There’s nothing left for you
here but revenge, so burn it all
down. Smash everything to pieces.
Rip their secrets out and lay it bare
for the world to see. You escape
your Darkest Self when you are
confronted by someone who has
never hurt, excluded, or betrayed
you, or are shown an act of
kindness that seems genuine.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold 2
Eyes: Desperate eyes, brittle eyes,
teary eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy
eyes
Origin: Genetic mutation,
government program, confluence
of bloodlines, abused child
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Fury move.
• Take another Fury move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Pyschic Gestalt.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Fury Moves
You get Futile Hope, and choose two
more:
• Futile Hope
Whenever someone acts kind or
accepting toward you, you each
take a string on the other, and you
get the condition Hopeful (which
replaces Betrayed if you have it). If
someone you trust betrays or hurts
you while you are Hopeful, lose all
strings on them, replace Hopeful
with Betrayed, and roll with Dark.
On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest
Self. On a 7-9, choose one:
+ Give them one more string on
you
+ Take 1 harm from psychic
feedback
+ Trigger your Darkest Self
When you are your Darkest Self,
your Fury moves are amplifed.
You can affect groups of victims
in the immediate area, and your
destructive powers can affect large
structures like buildings
o Firestarter
Roll with Volatile to unleash your
powers against your tomentors.
On a 10 up, do 2 harm. On a 7-9, do
1 harm, give them an appropriate
condition, and choose one:
+ Give yourself the same condition
+ Take 1 harm
+ Trigger your Darkest Self
If you are Betrayed, you may also
carry 1 forward against them.
Sex When you have sex with someone, gain two strings on that per-
Move son and give yourself the condition Hopeful.
o Mind Over Matter
When you Lash Out Physically using
your power instead of physical
attacks, you may roll with Cold
instead of Volatile. If you are
Betrayed, your victim must Keep
Their Cool before attempting to Run
Away.
o Scanners
Roll with Dark to invade some-
one else’s mind. On a 10 up, take
a string on them, and they must
honestly answer one question. On
a 7-9, they most honestly answer
one question and choose one:
+ They take a string on you
+ Give yourself the condition
Creepy
+ You each take 1 harm
On a 6 or less, they must answer
one question with a plausible lie
and you must believe it. If you are
Betrayed, do 1 harm to them in
addition to any other results.
o Dominate
You can roll with Volatile instead of
Hot to turn someone on by using
your mental abilities. On a 10 up,
in addition to giving you a string,
they must follow one short-term
command of your choice. On a 7-9
also give yourself the condition
Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also
give them the condition Enthralled.
o Just Desserts
When you successfully Lash Out
Physical or Shut Someone Down on
someone who has wronged you,
gain an experience.
Playing the Gargoyle
Guardians, protectors, old souls, and reluctant warden of the walls. The
Gargoyle is the stone sentry who guards their domain whether it be a high
school, church, a summer camp, community center, nightclub, apartment
complex, or any other establishment that has a community and regular
hours of operation. The Gargoyle has two concerns: their domain, and the
timer associated with their curse that forces them to back to stone until
sunrise or sunset. The Gargoyle must accept the fact that the life they live is
only half as normal, and unlike most teens at their age their curfew is one
they cannot break.

The two stat choices for the Gargoyle expresses two possiblities of what
the Gargoyle represents. The Gargoyle who viciously protects the physical
grounds of their domain and punishes those who would cross it (Volatile
2 & Cold 1) or the literal embodiment of their domain’s spirit who push
to keep that spirit alive (Hot 2, Volatile 1). The Gargoyle ponders it’s own
existence but does not concern itself about the dark things that lie off it’s
ground or beyond the curtain. The Gargoyle can be stoic but relatable, excit-
ed but also lonely. Their struggle to make the best of their situation while
forcing themselves to be ever vigilant; the Gargoyle faces exhaustion and
depression about their situation.

Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone statues in their dormant or animate
forms. You could be a sculpture of metal or wood or plaster, a painting or
mural, an old mascot costume or band uniform. Anything works as long as
it’s at least vaguely an anthropomorphic form, and it should be something
that won’t be easily missed when you are walking around looking like a hu-
man. As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your domain, so protecting and helping it
should always be your first priority. Balancing your duty versus your friends The Gargoyle
will be difficult. Warden & Charge allows you to alleviate this and shift your They remember being a real human kid once, a long time ago. Before they built
protection to the individuals of the community rather than your domain it- the school. Before they were cursed to become the guardian of their domain.
self. If you want to indulge in your monster personality, consider Grotesque But after a while the Gargoyle has come to accept the terms of their eternal
and Gullet in order to become the thing of legends. lease. They are in your classes, attend pep rallies, run for student council. They’ve
enjoyed the same classes over and over again, playing the joys of high school on
repeat.

Credits
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This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Art created by Blablover5
They were created to bless this school, and they will continue to guard it for
years to come. The Gargoyle is the warning and the punishment to the various
thieves, vandals, and other undesirables who would stain their grounds.

Identity
Names: Arris, Belvedere, Cary,
Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel,
Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda
Look: Dressed in school colors,
greyish skin, sculpted face, large
mouth, stiff posture
Your Backstory
Someone saw you transforming
into your dormant form. They take
2 strings on you.
You’ve been watching someone
who seems to have a great love
for your school. Take 2 strings on
them.
Darkest Self
Nobody else loves this school like
you do. They just don’t understand
how important it is. You’d be
nothing without it, and you’re
the only one that can protect it.
All those people that had stained
this school- they’re all enemies,
and they all have to be punished.
Severely. You escape from your
Darkest Self only when someone
shows you how your actions are
hurting your school.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Hard eyes, suspicious eyes,
protective eyes, dry eyes, glassy
eyes
Origin: animistic spirit,
cornerstone sacrifce, magically
animated statue, cursed victim
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Gargoyle move.
• Take another Gargoyle move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Stone Flock.
Conditions
Gargoyle Moves
You get School Spirit, and choose
one more:
• School Spirit
From sunrise to sunset (or vice
versa) you appear to be a normal
human being, but when your
period of activity ends, you become
dormant. While in this state, you
are an inanimate object and are
invulnerable to harm, but incapa-
ble of taking any action. Choose a
domain. When not dormant, you
gain a +1 to all rolls while in your
domain.
o Raise the Alarm
During your dormant period, if
someone else is in your domain
you can assume your human form.
If you are alone, you can still
become human, but take 1 harm. If
you leave your domain, you
instantly know if someone enters
or threatens the domain.
o Warden & Charge
For the purposes of School Spirit,
protecting the people associated
with your domain (students, facul-
ty, employees) while outside your
domain counts as being inside your
domain.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, protecting them counts as
protecting your school for the purposes of School Spirit, and
Move you cannot lash out physically at them for any reason. This lasts
until you have sex with someone else.
o Grotesque
You may transform into your
animate form. In this form you are
an inanimate object brought to life.
While animate you take 1 less harm
from anything that harms you(to
a minimum of zero harm) and you
get +1 to Lash Out Physically or Shut
Someone Down.
o Rival Schools
For the purposes of School Spirit,
acting against a rival school or
people associated with it counts as
being within your domain.
o Pep Rally
When rolling to Turn Someone On,
on a hit, you may remove a
condition from them as well as
yourself if you are in your domain.
o Gullet
You can vomit a gout of flame or
torrent of freezing water. Roll with
Volatile or Hot: on a 10 up, you
do 1 harm to your target and they
must hold steady. On a 7-9, choose
one:
+ You do 1 harm
+ You miss, but they must hold
steady
+ You miss, but you get a string
on them
On a 6 or less, you miss and they
get a string on you.
Playing the Goblin
Energetic, resilient, and obsessive. The Goblin wants
things with everything they have, and leaves the rest in
the dust. Control is hard for you to come by, but there's
little that can stop you when you put your mind to
something

The Goblin is always reckless and chaotic with their

Volatile 2 stat, and get to choose between being a messy
kind of sexy (Hot 1) or using their recklessness to dive
into the weird and supernatural (Dark 1).

Wants and Goblin Brain allow the Goblin to take Strings

on themself, taking control of their actions when they
would normally struggle. Strings gained on yourself
cannot be used for Pulling Strings, and only function for
the move Goblin Brain. When they pick a new want, it
has to be something they haven’t picked before, but it
doesn’t have to be something from the list: those are
just for starters, and you can make whatever you want
afterwards.

The Warrens can be metaphorical or literial: if you go a

more supernatural route, they might be long twisting
tunnels filled with refuse and garbage, where all manner
of goblins spawn. If you want to be mundane, then the
Warrens might be a state of mind where you calm
yourself down, or a network of alleyways you especially
like.

Bugs and Boogers lists ‘taboo’ and ‘offensive’ as things

you might be to trigger the move. Make sure to stick to
your group’s lines and veils within this move; slurs or
sexual comments might be too much for some people.
The Goblin
Some people think you’re impulsive, or reckless, or just plain weird. But you
know what you want, better than anyone. If you can just satisfy yourself,
then maybe you can control the wild energy you have.

Credits Little goblin, play wild and play dirty.

This skin is designed by C.M.Ruebsaat

Art by C.M.Ruebsaat

Identity
Name: Allison, Cat, Chick, Dylan,
Meg, Munch, Nessi, Possum, Ryan,
Tay, Toad
Look: trashy, lumpy, chaotic,
gangly, disheveled
Your Backstory
You’re trying, real hard. You even
gave someone a gift. Take a
String on yourself and them.
You have a hard time focusing on
stuff, and people can take
advantage of that. Give a String
to everyone.
Darkest Self
Self control? Caring what other
people think? Who gives a shit!
Nothing can hold you back,
especially not morals or
compassion. You’re a whirlwind
of chaos, theft, and impulse,
grabbing whatever you want and
leaving things smashed in your
wake. You escape your Darkest
Self when you destroy something
irreplacable or spend 3 Strings on
yourself to calm down.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold -1
Eyes: shifty eyes, sallow eyes,
bleary eyes, dirty eyes, wandering
eyes
Origin: goblin king, from the
garbage heap, class clown,
adopted, lost messenger
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Goblin move.
❍ Take another Goblin move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You’re part of a Hob Gang.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark -1
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Goblin Moves
You get Goblin Brain, Wants, and
choose one more:
● Wants
You want (circle 1): shinies,
attention, blood, pets. Once you’ve
gotten it, take a String on
yourself, and pick something new.
● Goblin Brain
When you have to be patient, roll
to Keep Your Cool. When you Keep
Your Cool by practicing self-
control, you can spend a String on
yourself to add 2 to the roll.
❍ Bugs and Boogers
When you Shut Them Down by
doing something taboo, offensive,
or disgusting, roll as if you had
Cold 3.
❍ Trade Ya
When you show someone a stash
of cool stuff you have, ask them
what thing you have that they
want. If you give it to them, they
take +1 Forward to using it, and
you take a String on them.
Sex When you have sex with someone, they choose what you
Want now, and you can take a String on yourself and
Move mark experience.
❍ Down and Dirty
When you take harm, you can
reduce the harm by 1. If you do so,
take a Condition, and give a
Condition to whoever harmed
you.
❍ Steal Away
When you take something from
someone, they choose one:
✦ They won’t notice until later.
✦ They lose a String on you.
✦ They have to offer you
something you Want in exchange.
❍ Any Attention Is Good
Attention
When you do something reckless
or dumb to impress someone, give
them a String and take a String on
yourself.
❍ The Warrens
When you retreat to the Warrens,
the place where the goblins live
and rest, Gaze Into the Abyss. On a
10 up, the Warrens will give you
what you need to satisfy your
Wants. On a 7-9, the Warrens will
dump you somewhere
inconvenient when you leave.
Playing the Succubus
Lonely, heartless, public, dangerous. The Succubus is temptation in the
literal flesh: always there to give everyone what they want, to make up for
their weaknesses, to save them the trouble of becoming a better person. All
they have to do is ask. But deep down they know, everytime they ask, the
Succubus takes something from them and eventually they’ll be nothing left
to take.

The two stat choices for the Succubus both have Hot 2, because turning
people on and enticing them with your assets is exactly what you were
born to do. If your looking to play a mega bitch who isn’t afraid to be a
tease and put down those lesser than them (Hot 2 & Cold 1) or perhaps
maybe your more in touch with your infernal side and want to better emu-
late the true legend of the Succubus (Hot 2 & Dark 1), the Succubus has got
you covered. The Succubus relies on buying their friends rather than mak-
ing them. Horde all the strings you can, and keep them under your spell.

Your Infernal Gifts allow you turn the whole tide of the game, the trade
off is you never decide how they get used. Don’t get directly involved with
conflicts, instead play the role of the arms dealer and fuel both sides with
your infernal delight. Take Addictive to help better keep NPCs and other
players under your thumb. Take advantage of the fact it doesn’t require a
full sexual act to activate. Wet Dreams is a powerful tool that allow you to
better manipulate and position for your agenda, but note that while pow-
erful you’ll need to be cunning in order to be in someone’s prescence while
they sleep.

Your Sex Move is going to be going off alot, netting alot of Strings on ev-
eryone you take a turn with and giving you more leverage for your other
actions. When you Darkest Self finally comes to light, your not worrying
about playing a sensitive game anymore. You want to mess with enough
relationships until the whole social order of the school comes down.
The Succubus
Everybody wants them. Hell, you can’t deny that you want them to. They are lust
incarnate. People come to them begging for a moment of pleasure in the school’s
toilet, or to help seduce the object of their desire. Everyone wants something and
the Succubus is there to give to them. They understand that their relationships
are based off a system of give and take, and that the people who claim to love
them are nothing more than junkies of their flesh.

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The Succubus feeds of people desire and hidden kinks that make them feel a
bit better about their own jostled existence. When their partners get what they
want, ultimately they do as well. Mama always said your body was a temple, she
never said it couldn’t be open for a priced admission.
Identity
Names: Bastien, Damon, Eve,
Georgina, Judith, Lilith, Salem, Sa-
lome, Saoul, Vincent.
Look: Boy/Girl next door, chase
and pure, jailbait, dark and sexy,
just a bit too nice
Your Backstory
Somebody asked you for a Gift,
and did something horrible with it.
Ask them what they did and take 3
Strings on them.
Someone caught you by surprise,
by doing something for you with-
out expecting anything in return.
You don’t understand but you’re
going to discover why, ask them
what they did for you and give
them 2 Strings.
Darkest Self
You thought you were using
others, but they are really using
you. You are their whore, their
harlot, their toy, and you always
have been. Why not be exactly
what they all want? You give
yourself to everybody and
anybody. You don’t react when
mistreated, because you believe
you deserve it. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone shows
you unconditioned kindness.
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Hot 2 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Eyes: Amazing eyes, “a bit off”
eyes, otherworldly eyes, piercing
eyes
Origin: demonblood, from Hell,
genie out of the bottle, possessed,
sold your soul
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Gain the remaining Infernal Gifts.
• Take another Succubus move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You have the help of an Incubus.
Conditions
Succubus Moves Infernal Gifts
You get Infernal Gifts and choose Choose two Infernal Gifts to begin
one more move. with.
• Infernal Gifts o Gift of Beauty
When you have time and intimacy Anyone bestowed with this gift
with someone, you can bestow may spend it to get an automatic
upon them an infernal gift. They 10 when Turning Someone On.
must be willing. If they accept, you
take a string on them and they o Gift of Might
gain the gift until it is spent. When Anyone bestowed with this gift
your gift is spent, you mark may spend it to get an automatic
experience. You can bestow as 10 when Lashing Out Physically.
many Gifts as you want, but
nobody can have more than one o Gift of Prescence
gift bestowed upon them at once. Anyone bestowed with this gift
o Addictive may spend it to get an automatic
10 when Shutting Someone Down.
When you give physical pleasure to
somebody else; they gain the
condition addicted to [your name]. o Gift of Knowledge
Anyone bestowed with this gift
o Taboo may spend it to get an automatic
When you spend a string to offer 10 when Gazing into the Abyss.
someone experience to do some-
thing against the community’s
o Gift of Protection
moral and sexual standards and
they accept mark experience. Anyone bestowed with this gift
may spend it to counter the effect
o Wet Dreams
of any skin move.
When in the presence of someone
who is sleeping, roll with Dark. On
a hit, you can see their dreams. Ask
2 on a 10+, 1 on a 7-9:
+What is this person’s heart’s
desire?
+Who does this person hate the
most?
+What does this person
desperately need?
Sex
When you have sex with someone, you always bring them to
climax and take a String. If you reach it too, give them a String;
Move if not, inflict them with an appropriate condition.
Playing The Triocha
Complex, powerful, fluid, and questioning. The
Triocha is three people in one body, sharing their
knowledge and abilities with each other. Or maybe
they're just three personas, or three aliases. Maybe
only one of them knows the truth.

Unlike most Skins, the Triocha does not have stat

options. Instead, their different aspects specialize
in certain stats, and they can move between those
aspects. With powerful bonuses to Dark, Volatile,
and Hot, they are a force to be reckoned with - if
they're in the right aspect at the right time. They
are not Cold, because the Triocha struggles to
detach themselves from any situation.

The Triocha is based on the idea of the tripartite

deity that shows up in many cultures, from the
Irish Morrigan, the Greek Fates and Furies, the
Norse Norns, even the Catholic Trinity. Instead of
borrowing powers directly from any of these, the
Triocha is defined by the ability to shift between
personas, capable of being the right person for
almost any situation, if they can assume the right
aspect.

You may invoke more specific aesthetics to

resemble your deity or mythical figure of choice,
but no knowledge is necessary to play. Likewise, many
of these figures are female, but you do not have to be.
Anyone can feel like they have multiple faces that

The Triocha
they show to the world.

Some people spend their whole lives perfecting one thing, one skill. But
not you. You can be stronger, sexier, smarter, swifter than anyone else.

But not all at the same time. Sometimes it gets hard to keep track of who

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you really are - if there even is a single identity you can claim. You juggle
three times as many worries, problems, relationships, and obligations as
anyone else. But if it ever gets too much? Well, you can always switch
faces again.

Identity
Name: Minthe, Dahlia, Quinn,
Ottilie, Machiko, Shreya, Moira,
Eino, Entelo, Ji-Hun, Qasim,
Zaya
Look: mercurial, ethereal,
feral, innocent, distant
Your Backstory
One of the other characters has a
close relationship with one of
your aspects, but not the others.
They gain 2 Strings on you.
You warned another character of
approaching harm, just in time.
You gain one String on them.
Darkest Self
It's all gotten too overwhelming.
Managing everyone's expectations,
their needs, their inability to
understand you as you truly are.
You're done catering to them.
You'll say exactly what you think,
be exactly who you want, hurt
exactly who you want to hurt.
"This isn't like you!" they cry. Well.
They've never know the full you.
You escape your Darkest Self when
someone tells you a truth about
yourself, and you believe them.
When you have sex with someone, ask them who they
Sex want you to be. While in the aspect that most suits their
Move
answer, you have +1 to all rolls assisting them.
Eyes: dancing, birdlike,
deep, solemn, unreadable
Origin: incarnated myth,
spell gone wrong, spell
gone right, born different,
cursed
Strings
Harm
Experience

 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Triocha move.
 Take another Triocha move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Join a Collective (Gang).
Conditions
Triocha Moves
You start with One of Three, and
choose one additional move.
 One of Three
Each midnight, you choose which
one of your three aspects you will
inhabit for the next day. These
aspects all look distinctly different.
Each aspect specializes in one trait
—Dark, Hot, or Volatile—and
receives a +3 to that stat. They
have -1 to all other stats. There is
no Cold aspect. In order to change
your aspect, you must complete a
ritual. Roll a flat roll. On a success,
you change without consequence.
On a fail, you cannot change. On a
mixed success, pick one:
• It hurts. Take 1 Harm, and
describe how the mark of it
lingers.
• Someone sees you change.
The MC chooses another
character to receive a
String on you.
• It disorients you. You forget
the last ten minutes, and
lose forward holds you
have.
• You enter your Darkest Self.
Whatever the result, describe the
ritual and how you ensure that it
is powerful, personal, and magical.
 We're All Listening
If someone tells you a secret, they
mark one experience. If you
reference or use the secret while in
any other aspect than the one they
told, they gain 2 Strings on you.
Who nearby means me
harm?
Where should I be looking
next?
 That Wasn't Me
When you attempt to convince
someone that your other aspect
is a different person than your
current aspect, they may mark
an experience if they believe you.
 Past, Present, Future
When you Gaze Into the Abyss,
proceed as normal; but no matter
what the result is, you may ask
the MC one of the following
questions, which they must
answer honestly (if not clearly):
• Who nearby means me harm?
• Where should I be looking next?
• What do I need to be wary of?
• Which aspect will serve me best
tomorrow?
 Speak My Name
Each of your aspects may give one
token to another character. If this
character activates the token, it
gives you an ability depending on
which aspect it is tied to. You will
appear in the aspect used to
summon you. You do not have the
option of refusing the connection, so
give your tokens wisely.
• Hot: You can speak psychically
with the holder of your token,
no matter the distance
• Dark: You can see and hear what
they see and hear, no matter the
distance
• Volatile: You will appear in their
location, no matter the distance
Playing the Unchained
Repressed, looking to be freed, addictive, and wrapped up in immense
dysphoria. The Unchained is violent dysfunction wrapped in a package and
topped with a pretty bow. The Unchained has their other self as an outlet
for all their secret needs. Constantly warring between accepting
accountability for the actions of the other, or living the life they always
wanted to. There is no obstacle the Unchained can’t break through with the
aid of his alter ego.

The two stat choices of the Unchained reflect not just yourself but also
your other self. Is your base identity someone who is cold and has
immersed themselves in keeping others at bay before transforming into a
social butterfly of flirting and violence (Cold 2 & Dark 1)? Or maybe your
base identity is someone who is outspoken and slightly vunerable, leaving
your other self as a cold uncaring beast who only wants to hurt others (Hot
2 & Dark 1)? Because of your natural connection to both sides of yourself,
you are naturally immersed in Dark.

Taking Dysphoria/Eurphoria allows benefits for each stat spread you can
choose from allowing you to perform normal actions to your transformed
form’s strength rather than their weakness. Taking Addiction and Unholy
Glee allows you to play as someone who enjoys their transformation rather
than fearing it, but be careful it’s a slippery slope. If you want to make your
other self a truly frightening change, take Your Not Me! for the potential to
turn your other self into a full blown menace.

Play to your strengths of versatility and don’t be afraid to cause a mess,

by transforming there is no problem you can’t solve. Understand that one
cannot exist without the other and balance is always needed. When your
Darkest Self you are at your strongest but you are also at your most
vulnerable.
The Unchained
Most people wonder about the person they should be, doing the things they
shouldn’t do. The Unchained doesn’t need to wonder because their id and ego are
in constant war with one another. All day, every day, burying their real desires
because giving in would mean losing everything - family, friends, and a place
in the world. So they kept their head down, and hated themselves. Everything
feeling wrong to them.

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But now it’s time for that to change, have your cake and eat it to. Indulge in
every pleasure you can imagine. People get hurt all the time, it’s a small price to
pay for tasting the forbidden fruit, right?
Identity
Names: Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank,
Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia, Marlowe,
Mary, Tom
Look: Pristine, stuffy, nerdy,
average, tailored, sickly, unkempt,
tendy, hulking, stunning, small
Your Backstory
Someone is important to you and
someone is important to your
other self. Give a string to each
person.
Someone has accidentally
witnessed your transformation into
your other self. Each of you takes a
string on one another.
Darkest Self
You transform into your other self,
but now things are different. You
are truly free because it is in
complete control. No limits, no
constraints, no regrets. Use and
abuse anyone in your way. Nothing
is important but satisfying your
every whim. You escape your
Darkest Self when you cause some
sort of unforgivable harm to
someone your normal self cares
about.
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Eyes: Yearning eyes, dilated eyes,
frightened pupils, bloodshot eyes,
smoldering eyes, hungry eyes
Origin: Checmical concotion,
invocation of Janus, mathetmatical
formula, sensory deprivation
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Unchained move.
• Take another Unchained move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You form a Collective.
Conditions
Unchained Moves o Freedom of Consequence
Whenever you transform from
You start with The Formula, choose your other self back to normal, heal
one more. 1 Harm and clear a condition.
• The Formula
o Unholy Glee
You have an other self, this
When you are your normal self
alternate version of may look or
and take happiness or pride in the
act completely different. It to fulfill
violent or shameful incidents your
your repressed desires. Transform-
other self was involved in, you may
ing in either direction requires
preparation, although you will
mark experience.
always transform back when you
o Enemy Unknown
are unconscious. When you
Your other self is a true separate
transform into your other self, all
identity. Neither of you
stats below 0 add 2 to their
remembers the actions of the
respective stats and all stats above
2 subtract 2 from their respective other. Track strings as if you were
two separate characters, you and
stats.
your other self get a string on the
o Addiction other when you take this move.
You no longer need a preparation
process and may become your oth-
er self at will. Only being uncon-
scious will return you to normal.
When you become your other self,
carry 1 forward. If you go a full day
without becoming your other self,
roll to Keep Your Cool. If you don’t
roll a 10+, give yourself the
condition Withdrawl.
o Dysphoria/Euphoria
When you’re transformed into your
other self, you may roll Hot when
you Shut Someone Down or Keep
Your Cool. You may also roll Cold to
Turn Someone On or Run Away.
Sex When you have sex with someone, your other self carries 1 for-
Move ward to harm that person. When your other self has sex with
someone, take a string on that person.
Sex Moves
You have three intimacy moves:
When you lay your head in a virgin's lap,
gain a point of Integrity and choose:
SS give them 1 forward to
protecting you,
SS roll to turn them on.
When you kiss a non-virgin, take 1 harm.
When you have sex, lose all your
Integrity.
Darkest Self
This is it. Everything falls apart, and
you can't hold it together anymore. It's
not because everything is too much
to bear – just that you aren't good
enough. So beg their forgivenesses,
everyone you've wronged by being too
weak to help; and show them how
Playing The Unicorn
Desperate, kind, helpful, good. The
Unicorn tries to be a benevolent
supporting force in the world, but they You try so hard to help, and
don't believe in themselves. to be good. But you feel like
a foal out on the ice and the
The Unicorn looks at the concept lake is ringed by wolves and
of virginity as a binary thing. Before your inner warmth makes the
the game starts, tell the MC what ice beneath you weaken.
universally “counts” and "doesn't
count” as losing your virginity,
One of the best things in this
remembering to account for
interactions between people with the world and not long for it.
same genitals. Before someone has
done those things, they are a virgin. If
your group fades to black instead of
describing the sex acts, your MC will
ask questions to clarify if characters
have lost their virginity or not. Of
course, players still say when their
own Sex Moves occur. Speaking of,
read your three intimacy moves!
You start off able to gain Integrity,

sorry you are, in whatever small ways
you can muster before the final curtain
falls. Don't seek their acceptance.
You don't deserve it. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone reflects to
you a glimmer of your own self worth.
Advancement
 Take another Unicorn move.
 Take another Unicorn move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You're accepted by a
Circle of Friends.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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but perhaps have nothing to spend
it on. That's ok. If your integrity stat
is highlighted, you mark experience
when you roll, not when you gain a
point. You define what issues matter
to you: start with People Should Never.
Both Lesser Beasts and Hunted
externalize the Unicorn's power,
populating the world instead of giving
them agency. If you take either of
those moves, tell the MC right then
what's cool about it to you. Once play
is under way, the MC will control the
characters from these moves.
I Believe In You is for after they roll,
whereas Prophecies is for before -
maybe well before.
If you take Blessings, remind the other
players that you have it. Ask about the
things their characters long for using
your character's voice, too.
The Unicorn
Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Abdul-Rahman, Abilene, Acacia, birthmark, mohawk, actual horn,
Aedelwine, Aghavni, Aiko, Ajit, Akash, hairstyle, trick of the light
Andy, Astrid
translucent eyes, solitary eyes,
a name beginning with A, stoic eyes, modest eyes, humble eyes
a brave name, a selfless name,
a nigh-forgotten name,
a fortuitous name
People Should Never
Circle some and make up your own:
eat meat, lie, talk back, be selfish,
Origin hurt the environment, break the law,
Circle one: support sweatshops, disobey elders,
swear, dance, drive a car, do drugs,
magic is dying, hunted to extinction, appropriate cultures, bully, gossip,
survivor, blessed, our last hope misgender people, make someone cry
Name: Carry Forward Unicorn Moves  A Good Person
You get this one, and choose two more:
Spend an Integrity to offer someone an

Stats
experience point to do what you say.
 With Integrity If they undertake to do that thing, and
Add 1 to one of these four: You judge your own actions harshly, you directed them towards making
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1 holding yourself to a high moral a third party happier at no one's
standard. You have a fifth stat to reflect
expense, mark experience.
 Conditions this, which starts at zero and can climb
to 3. Gain a point of Integrity when
Hot SS you take the moral highground
 Speak From The Heart
When you have someone else's best
(Turn Someone On, about an issue that matters,
interests at heart, add 2 to your rolls to
Manipulate an NPC) SS you follow through on something
manipulate an NPC.
important that you say you'll do.

You can gain up to 1 Integrity per  Lesser Beasts

When you're near them, animals can
Cold
scene. When a move calls for you to
Notes roll with integrity, erase 1 Integrity converse in human speech. Full
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) sentences and broad concepts, with
after you roll.
strange gaps of knowledge.

  I Believe In You
When you believe in someone who has
 Hunted
Volatile just done less than their best, make
There are things that hunt you, things
you often catch out of the corner of
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) eye contact with them and roll with
your eye. When one of them comes out
integrity (& then erase 1). On a 10 up,
into the open, choose:
the roll they just made counts as a 10.
 SS stand up to it and award yourself
• On a 7-9, add 1 to the roll they just
a point of Integrity,
Dark Harm
made. When time seems to stop and
SS call out for help and anyone who
fate hangs in the balance, sometimes
(Gaze Into The Abyss) comes to your rescue marks
believing in somebody is enough.
experience,
SS look directly at it and ask the MC


 Experience Points:  Prophecies
When you predict the outcome of a
a question about your hunters.

Integrity
Your Backstory
Someone is thinking about taking
something from you - discuss with
them and decide what it is. You each
get a String on one another.
Someone's in love with you and has
told you about their feelings. Gain 2
Strings on them.
 
>> advance PC's intended action well before they
 Blessings
undertake it, roll with integrity (&
(If you pick this, read it aloud.)
then erase 1). On a 10 up, the decisive
Strings
When other people seek your blessing
move's roll will succeed as a result of
and erase a String on you, tell
10 up, or automatically miss, choose
them whether you approve of their
now. • On a 7-9, as above, but you'll
intentions. If you approve, they carry
have to be there to help it along.
1 forward to realizing it. If you don't,
they take that String on you back.
On a successful roll, read this aloud:
"A PC may defy this prediction by
breaking their own heart."

Other Moves
Playing the Unseen
Voyeuristic, constantly tempted, and watched by no one. The Unseen is
alone and unnoticed. An urban legend and a phantasm, unseen and usually
forgotten. For some reason the Unseen is gone from this world, whether
she is literally invisible or just unable to be noticed. The Unseen is alone but
they are free, they don’t have to go to class if they dont want to. It’s easy
for them to skulk around and spy on everyone, and go about unchalleneged
by anyone.

The two stat choices for the Unseen set you on two different paths. Are
you a being who is cold towards everyone and out of touch, looking to
torment those for her lonliness (Cold 2, Volatile 1), or perhaps you are the
embodiment a literal urban legend and a connection deeply ingrained with
the Abyss (Dark 2, Cold 1). With a low Hot stat across the board, the Unseen
cannot interact with others to the point were perhaps they have forgotten
what it means to interact with people in the first place. Whether it be the
mystery of tracking down the reason for your condition or learning to live
in a world that recognizes you one moment and forgets you the next.

When playing the Unseen, your main mechanic is your gift as well as your
curse. While you won’t be able to interact with others most of the time,
you will be able to use your talents to gather information and complete
your agenda unopposed. Taking Voyeur allows you to capitilize on this more
and allows you universal prescence in a game. Blackmailer grants you
bonuses on collecting dirt on all the PCs and NPCs within the game
allowing you to rack up strings and free to spend your social leverage. If
you have They’re Not There, think about how to inadvertenly shut your
target down, you won’t be able to directly interact or even leave stuff but
by pushing others you can get to the people you want to get to. The Unseen
They’ve seen every dirty secret that this place has to offer. From the secret
Give into the temptation to do all sort of things since nobody can see you. hookups, to the secret drug users, the murders, the thieves, all of them thought
Your not accountable to anyone, after all. As your Darkest Self, go all out: no one had seen them. But the Unseen saw them. Nobody every noticed them,
create a new aspect of your legend, whether it’s causing major chaos, but they see everything. All the things they do when they no-one is watching.
inflicting heavy violence, or creating a spectacle that they cannot ignore And maybe it’s time they started taking advantage of that.
your name. They will worship you eventually.

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Art created by James Green.

Identity
Names: Billy, Cecily, Grifn, Grover,
Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy,
Sebastian, Sue
Look: Bad posture, peering
through bangs, beiges and creams,
t-shirt that is a hand-me-downse
Your Backstory
You are beneath notice. Erase all
strings that other characters have
on you so far.
You watch everyone in their
private moments. Take 1 string on
everyone else.
Someone inadvertantly showed you
some very juicy blackmail material.
Take 1 extra string on them.
Darkest Self
Such a bland and boring wallflow-
er. You’re not even interesting
enough to torment. None of them
know you even exist. What will it
take to get them to notice you?
Something big. Something bloody.
Something vile and terrifying and
above all, something showy. They
won’t be able to ignore you after
this. You can escape your Darkest
Self when someone makes it clear
that they know you exist.
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Eyes: Knowing eyes, translucent
eyes, downcast eyes, pearly eyes,
forgettable eyes
Origin: invisibility formula,
psychic blank spot, cursed to fade
away, someone-else’s problem
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Unseen move.
• Take another Unseen move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You become an Urban Legend.
Conditions
Unseen Moves
You get They’re Not There or See
Right Through You, and choose one
more:
• They’re Not There
You are unnoticeable. No one can
see, hear, smell, or otherwise sense
you or anything in your posses-
sion. People will avoid you with
being aware of it. Evidence of your
prescence is also ignored. Cameras
and non-sentient devices can still
record and register you. If you
want to make yourself known, roll
Cold. On a hit, you can interact
with others for one scene. On a
7-9, you stay invisible but can leave
whispers, notes, or small indirect
actions.
• See Right Through You
You are perfectly transparent.
Nothing including cameras can see
you. This only affects your body,
not anything you wear or carry.
You can still be sensed by anything
but sight. Interacting with others
normally may involve wearing
bandages, full covered clothing, or
a mask. If your disguised and your
nature is exposed roll Cold. On a
hit, you can retain self-control and
make a hasty escape. On a 7-9, you
are enraged and embarrassed. All
onlookers get a string on you.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, give up all strings on them.
They develop an uncanny sense for your presence and notice
Move you without rolling. This lasts until either of you have sex with
someone else, or until they harshly ignore you.
o Blackmailer
When you spy on someone in a
private moment, take a string.
When you a spend a string to offer
experience, keep the string if they
refuse.
o Voyeur
You may spend a string on some-
one to insert yourself into any
scene that person is in. When you
gaze into the abyss about someone
you have a string on, spend it in
order to change a miss into a 7-9,
or a 7-9 into a hit.
o Urban Legend
When you do something extreme
in order to attract attention, roll
Volatile. On a hit, mark experience
and treat anyone who is affected
as if you had shut someone down.
On a 7-9, gain the condition Urban
Legend and treat them as if you’d
shut someone down.
o Enemy Unknown
When you are invisible and lash out
physically, add 1 to your roll. Others
take -1 to attempts to lash out
physically at you.
o Fade to Black
You can run away as if rolled a 10
without having to roll, but choose
one:
+ They take a string on you.
+ You take 1 harm.
+ You gain the condition Urban
Legend.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
read them this: "Choose at least one
thing from this list, and for each that
you choose, describe something I learn
about you from our intimacy:
SS Give me a String on you, and take
something from my collection.
SS Give me a String on you, and take
a String on me as well.
SS Give me a String on you, and I'll
promise you anything you'd like.
SS Give me a String on you, and then
give me a Condition."
Darkest Self
You've become too heady, too lax, too
vague. You need to dominate one of the
people-things that you treasure, let it
know that it's yours, that it doesn't get
to choose who owns it – you do. You
Playing The Wyrm
Controlling, manipulative, brooding, You see what most miss,
jealous. The Wyrm is a player of mind passing glances that tell
games and a dealer in social currency. tales of control. You've been
It's also a rather complicated Skin, transformed by your aching
perhaps best played by those who've desire for power over people.
played before. They're hard to acquire all at
once, but you can win them
During backstory, you'll be asked
bit by bit, piece by piece,
to select some PCs to be “merely
string by string.
currency” and others to be “treasure.”
Metaphorically speaking, you use one
to get the other. Your opinions of them What you've changed into -
can change, of course. you're the kind of thing that
runs the world. You don't
You can't use Bargaining Ceremony to have to be liked to be obeyed,
give away Strings that other people
have collected on you. It's great to
or understood to be feared.
There's nothing so excellent
speak as your characters while sliding
as the delicate flavor
trade offers back and forth on index
of power over others.
cards. A bargain can of course include
objects, promises, and especially
things from your Bait collection. Give
them a good deal, get what you want,

The Wyrm
escape your Darkest Self when your
and keep them coming back. Try to
treasured thing proves that you don't
keep notes about everyone's Strings
own it entirely, or when you see the
on one another. A tip to keep the story
difference between objects and people.
rolling: after each offer or refusal,
describe a detail about your poise or

Advancement
 Take another Wyrm move.
 Take another Wyrm move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 You find some willing
Collection Curators.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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subtle movement - encourage your
bargainer to do the same.
Condition examples in Broker are from
moves from the Ghost, Queen, Ghoul,
Selkie, Serpentine, Heir, and Firestarter.
Take this when those or other Skins
with moves that generate Conditions
are in your group. Remember to give
out those Conditions yourself, too!
With Where I Want You, the MC might
have another scene occur first, but it
won't include you or your obsession.
To frame a scene, say these five things:
where it takes place, what time of day
it is, how many minutes or hours have
passed since the previous scene, who's
there, and what's generally going on.
Name
Choose a name:
Alister, Bellinda, Donna, Eustace,
Midas, Ormr, Tatsuya, Uther,
Veles, Vritra
a sinister name, a name full of teeth,
a coiling name, a name of wealth,
a royal name
Look
Circle one in each list:
sharp, dangerous, expensive,
collected, quiet
burning eyes, sly eyes, greedy eyes,
bored eyes, unblinking eyes
Origin
Circle one:
slept under a mountain, in your blood,
awakened, enamored with objects,
heart got so black
Name: Carry Forward Wyrm Moves  Broker
You're attuned to how people value
You get these two, then choose one: and weaken one another. Whenever
you gain a String on someone with
 Bargaining Ceremony any Conditions named in a Skin move,
Stats Drinking tea, sharing a cigarette,
playing chess, or sitting back to back
such as blamed, one of them, morbid,
Add 1 to one of these: dazed, snake food, like a sister to me, like
are all ceremonies. a brother to me, or moth to the flame,

Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions When negotiating a bargain during
a ceremony, both of you can offer
Strings as part of that bargain. This
 can include Strings you have on others,
Hot
or new Strings that you generate on
yourselves. When you're both satisfied,
(Turn Someone On, the exchange occurs.
Manipulate an NPC)
Notes  The Bait
You have a collection of beautiful

things – maybe zines, jazz records,
Cold or old jewelry. When you show it
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) to someone, they inevitably find
something they fancy. They will mark
experience when it becomes theirs and
 is no longer yours. Also, choose one:
Volatile
SS they see something someone else
would like, and when you show
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
Harm
that someone the something,
carry one forward against them,
SS the time has flown by and it's

hours later than you thought.
Dark Experience Points:
(Gaze Into The Abyss)  Wingman
When you wax poetic about the beauty
 
>> advance
of another PC, that other PC rolls to
turn on the person you're talking to.
Your Backstory Strings
Judge each other PC as either
“treasure” or “merely currency.”
mark down 2 Strings on that person
instead of 1.
 Where I Want You
When you obsess about someone, you
may spend 4 Strings on them; you'll
frame the next scene either of your
characters appear in. Frame a scene
with just the two of you, and until
you've made a move, no one else can
enter and they can't leave.
 Jealous Coils
When anyone gets close to someone
you covet and you act territorial, roll
with dark. On a 10 up, both: they lose
a String on your coveted, and you gain
a String on your coveted. • On a 7-9,
gain a String on your coveted, and your
coveted chooses:
SS they give you a Condition,
SS you say something you'll regret.
 Scales
Once per session, you can transform
into a terrifying beast of talons and
coils. Give yourself the Condition
secretly vulnerable. While transformed,
you can roll to lash out physically with
dark, except do as much harm as
you like. When the scene ends, you
collapse back into your human form.

If they're treasure, describe the Other Moves

moment they caught your eye, and
give them a String.

If they're merely currency, take

a String on them. Read them this:
"Describe something off-putting that
I said to you."
Playing the Mare
Lonely, terrifying, mysterious, and invasive. The Mare
steps into people’s dreams as they sleep, manipulating
their thoughts and perceptions. They are nightmarish,
and nobody wants to be around a nightmare.

The two stat choices for the Mare both have Dark 2,
because the Mare deals in the weird and creepy side of
the world. They are different depending on whether the
Mare is more cool and manipulative (Cold 1) or
frighteningly vicious (Volatile 1). Very few people like or
tolerate the Mare, so they have low Hot no matter what.

Inflict Nightmares provides a new way of manipulating

the actions of other characters to compliment the basic
moves. You can tie their fate to other characters by
moving who they have Strings on, change how they are
seen by others, or make them look at something they’d
rather not.

Like a Fading Dream can mess with the relationships

between characters to an extreme degree. It is up to the
MC and the group whether or not there is any way for
other characters to regain their memories of the Mare,
or whether they are lost forever.

Bump in the Night gives you plenty of licence and

opportunities to exercise your other moves, such as
Kinda Creepy or Inflict Nightmares with more ease. When
you use this move, make sure to describe how your
body twists and contorts in unnatural ways.

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The Mare
The moon shines through the window, leaf-dappled light illuminating
someone sleeping on the bed. That’s where you come in. They toss and turn,
breaking out in a sweat. Their wake with a scream and a shout, and it takes
them a long time to get back to sleep.
But when they finally do, you slip out from behind their curtains, taking the
nightmare with you. They might never even know you exist during the light
of day, but at night you occupy their every thought.
Identity
Name: Aisling, Erin, Hayal,
Kieran, Leto, Morpheus, Plen,
Weaver, Zoe
Look: wet, twisted, hidden,
barely-there, grave-pale
Your Backstory
You’ve been protecting someone
in their sleep. Gain a String on
them.
Someone knows your name. Give
them two Strings on you.
Darkest Self
Eyes: dark eyes, muddy eyes,
stark eyes, ethereal eyes, bedroom
eyes
Origin: someone’s dream, sleep
paralysis demon, cosmic messenger,
dreamweaver, forgotten
Strings
Harm
Mare Moves
You get Inflict Nightmares, and
choose one more:
● Inflict Nightmares
When you visit someone in their
dreams, roll with Dark. On a 10
up, choose one from below. • On a
7-9, choose one from below, but
they notice your intrusion and
take a String on you.
✦ They gain a Condition,
✦ Move a String they have on
someone to someone else, or
✦ Force them to Gaze Into the
Abyss, but you name what they’re
looking for.
❍ Coming to Terms
When you force someone to
confront their guilt or regrets, you
mark experience and give them a
Condition.
❍ Into the Dreamscape
When you Run Away by stepping
into the world of dreams, add 2 to
your roll. If you spend a String on
someone willing, you can bring
them with you for a scene or two,
before you’re both returned to the
mundane world.
❍ Like a Fading Dream
When someone has no Strings on
you, add this option to Inflict
Nightmares:
✦ They won’t remember who
you are when they wake up.
❍ Bump In the Night
You can squeeze under doors, fit
beneath beds, and crawl along
ceilings. When you are in a room
with someone who isn’t aware of
you, add 1 to all your rolls against
them.

You don’t belong with the others;

they were right. You’re not
meant to be in this world. Force
your way into their private
thoughts and moments until they
can’t ignore you, and then ruin
them. You escape your Darkest
Self when someone accepts you
despite knowing your intentions.
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Mare move.
❍ Take another Mare move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You lead a Dark Cavalry.
❍ Kinda Creepy
When someone ignores you, asks
you to leave, tells you you are
creepy, or flees from you, take a
String on them.

Conditions

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Sleep When you fall asleep beside someone, you can Inflict
Nightmares on them as though you rolled a 10.
Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 Move
Playing the Minotaur
Violent, lonely, and a downright bullt. The Minotaur is one who secretly
longs for friendship and acceptance, easily manipulated by anyone who
knows how to push their buttons. The Minotaur is often used and aimed
towards specific people in order to carry out the agenda of those who
control the Minotaur.

The two stat choices of the Minotaur highlight similiar schools of thought
with different ways of execution. Your traditional Minotaur is hotblooded
and angry ready to punch their way through anyone while being vunerable
to the jests of others, and being as passionate in their love life as they are
in their violence (Volatile 2 & Hot 1). The other path dictactes a Minotaur
who is as mentally cruel as they are violent pushed this way through years
of loneliness and perhaps even abuse. (Cold 2 & Volatile 1).

The conditions associated with the Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In

the Maze represents a way to express that your dangerous attention has
been drawn to them, whether or not this ends in you beating them up is
up to you. Golden Thread represents someone who is in your good books or
someone who you were asked to leave alone by someone worth listening
to.

The Minotaur revolves around inflicting these conditions as often as possi-

ble. Take the moves Matador and Seeing Red in order to easily dispatch your
conditions to everyone around you. No Way Out represents a more super-
natural move that’ll allow you to track the object of your anger no matter
how far they are.

When your Darkest Self break, you got a list and you’ve checked it twice.
Dispatch as much violence as possible and don’t stop until everyone’s been
given an attitude adjustment.
The Minotaur
It wasn’t like you to be a bully. It’s not your fault your bigger than the others, or
are a little slow in your words, or are as they say naturally scary. But the
Minotaur knows it is what it is. They understand that their friends are afraid
of them or worse want to use them. But atleast if you beat people up for them
they’ll give you the time of day. Anything is better than being alone.

Sometimes you regret it, sometimes it hurts you. But getting angry always seem
Credits to be a fine solution. Anything to escape the labyrinth.

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Identity
Names: Aster, Bastien, Doracas,
Ferdie, Johnny, Manny, Nandi,
Norman, Rosie, Shamala
Look: Beefy, sweaty, looming,
shaggy, bodybuilder
Your Backstory
You regulary act as an enforcer for
someone. They take two Strings on
you.
You recently bullied someone. Take
a String on them.
Darkest Self
You’re nothing but a violent animal
and everybody knows it. They used
you like a weapon pointing at their
enemies. So it’s time, be the violent
animal. Track down anyones that’s
In the Maze, and show them how
bestial you truly are or find new
victims. You escape your Darkest
Self when you’ve taken vengeance
against someone In the Maze or are
confronted by someone with the
Golden Thread.
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Dull eyes, red-glinting eyes,
furious eyes, threatening eyes,
lonely eyes
Origin: Bestial demigod, abused
animal growth hormones, cursed,
experiment, anger issues
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Minotaur move.
• Take another Minotaur move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You have a a Herd of Cronies.
Conditions
o The Matador
Minotaur Moves When someone asks you to beat
You get Labyrinth, and one more. someone up for them, you may
treat it as if they had spent a String
• Labyrinth and mark experience. Give their
When you do harm to someone target the condition In the Maze.
gain a string. You gain +1 on all
rolls against someone except Turn o Seeing Red
Someone On when they have the
When you Gaze into the Abyss
condition In the Maze. You take -1
about someone your furious with,
on all rolls against someone except
roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a
Turn Someone On when they have
hit give them the condition In the
the condition Golden Thread.
Maze, on a 10+ the next time you
would damage you do an
o Bestial Lust additional 1 Harm.
When you roll to Turn Someone On,
remove a condition from yourself. o Ariadne
If you do this give your target the When someone with In the Maze
Golden Thread condition. condition asks for your forgiveness
and you comply, take a String on
o Bully that person and give them the
When you use physical force to Golden Thread condition.
intimidate or harass, roll Volatile
instead of Cold to Shut Someone
Down.
o No Way Out
You have a link to people who
incur your wrath. When someone
has the condition In the Maze you
can always track where they are.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, give them a string on you and
the condition Golden Thread. They may choose to ask you to spare
Move one person; if they do, give that person the condition Golden
Thread as well.
Playing the Mummy
Royal, confident, powerful, and fallen. The Mummy is a person out of time
that has lost their former glory with a unquenchable thirst to get it all
back. They are aware of exactly how great they are, and completely
convinced of their own innate royalty. Never questioning whether they
deserve it or not, because of course they do. Only the best of the best will
suit someone with their lofty status. Any actions they take to aquire these
things is justified to them. Selfish at their core.

The two stat choices paint the same story but different themes, the
Mummy can be as glorious as they think they are with beautiful stature
that truly makes them feel like the ruler they truly are (Hot 2 & Dark 1),
however the Mummy can be someone drapped in the mysticism that is
often associated with the lore, a priest or priestess that uses their magic in
order to ensnare everyone around them, forcing them to submit (Dark 2 &
Cold 1).

Taking the move Soulmate adds another whole new field of play to the
Mummy allowing you to pick another character and giving you the task to
force them under you, as your second in command, but your second
nonetheless. Mummy’s Curse deters others from attemping to harm you, and
Soul Eater giving you a powerful weapon to use against those who try to
cross you. The Cursed Artifacts is by far the most powerful move the Mum-
my has in terms of versatility but also is a double edge sword. Use it wisely.

Pursue your former glory, whether you do this through subversion or

directly, the Mummy may attempt to sate themselves with their new life
but in the end it will never be enough. When you finally enter your Darkest
Self, your plan trumps all and it’s time to go to work.
The Mummy
The Mummy once had it all. Wealth, power, station, the adoration of followers,
love, magic. They were the kings and queens of old civilizations, at the head of
the table, and that life was good. However something took it away from,
wretching them from glory and leaving them with nothing but darkness and the
cruel tides of time.

However now they have awakened, and while the world has moved, some things
Credits still remain the same. They’ll have their rightful place again, and it doesn’t
matter what they have to do to get it.
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Identity
Names: Ampata, Ananka, Ardath,
Cleo, Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Otzi,
Ramses, Xin Zhui
Look: Imperious, old-fashioned,
wealthy, foreign, compelling,
powerful
Your Backstory
Someone has accepted their place
at your feet. Take a String on them.
You see someone as a threat to
your position, they take a String on
you.
Darkest Self
You have been patient for lon-
Eyes: Haugthty eyes, unsleeping
eyes, dry eyes, heavily made up
eyes, lonely eyes
Origin: Betrayed royalty, peat bog
murder, sacrificial offering, watery
grave, frozen solid
Strings
Harm
Mummy Moves
Take Mummy’s Curse and two more.
• Mummy’s Curse
When anyone inflicts at least 1
harm on you, they are forced to
roll to Keep Your Cool. If they are an
NPC, give them a condition.
o Soul Eater
You feed off the life force of others
with a kiss. When you feed roll
with Dark. On a 10+, deal 1 Harm
and mark experience. On a 7-9, deal
1 Harm and they take a string on
you.
o Soulmate
A lover from a past life has been
reincarnated. Choose someone to
be your soulmate, you add 1
ongoing to all rolls against one
another. You may spend a String
you have on your soulmate to enter
any scene they are in.
o Past Life
o Royal Decree
You may roll with Hot to Shut
Someone Down.
o Cursed Artifacts
You possess a large collection of
cursed artifacts. You can use these
artifacts to your own advantage if
you are willing to endure the side
effects. Each time you use an arti-
fact, choose a Boon:
+ Add 1 to one of your stats for a
scene.
+ Do 1 Harm to someone.
+ Remove 1 Harm from someone.
+ Give someone a condition from
someone.
+ Remove a condition from
someone.
+ Treat one roll as if you had
rolled a 10+.
Also the MC chooses a Curse:
+ Subtract 1 from one of your
stats for a scene.
+ Take 1 Harm.
+ Gain a condition of the MC’s
choice.

ger than most civilizations have
existed, and now your patience is
exhausted. No more planning, no
more manipulating. Claim your
riches, retake your birthright,
eliminate the kin of your enemies.
If you have a soulmate, pursue
them relentlessly. You escape your
Darkest Self when you achieve one
of your goals or someones manages
you to force you into submission.
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Mummy move.
• Take another Mummy move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Ancient Cult.
Conditions
Whenever you meet a new + Someone gains a string on you.
character you may declare if you + One of your Mummy moves
knew them in a past life, roll with stops working for a scene.
Dark. On a 10+, the person’s past
life was a friend or ally, take a
String on each other and mark
experience. On a 7-9, they were
an acquaintance, make a request
of them if they take it they gain a
String of you or mark experience.
On a miss, they were an enemy.

Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, take a String on them and
give them a command. They carry 1 forward toward any action

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move they take that is intended to benefit you. If they are your
soulmate, mark experience.
Playing the Muse
Misunderstood genius, passionate, and obsessed. The Muse is a savant who
can elevate their skill to truly be called a master, or they could if something
wasn’t holding them back. A terrible injury, disfigurement, or other obsta-
cle prevented them from truly reaching the heights they were destined for.
Both those who cannot do, teach. So the Muse takes on a Prodigy, someone
to pass down their art. The Muse is crazed brilliance manifested directed at
their one chosen student. They’ll do anything - no matter how vile - to see
them succeed.

The two stat choices for the Muse both contain Cold because they are indif-
ferent and hardened to most of the outside world. Whether you approach
furthering your Prodigy as something increasingly violent (Dark 2 & Cold 1)
or perhaps you prefer to ensure to keep your Prodigy under your thumb as
long as possible (Cold 2 & Volatile 1), your moves and your actions revolve
around your Prodigy.

If you wish to eliminate the obstacles around your Prodigy choose Punjab
Lasso in order to give the upper hand as your targets become embroiled
within your schemes and traps. Taking Grasshopper or Scorpion and Don Juan
Triumphant allows you to focus on grooming your Prodigy to become your
eternal love. When your Darkest Self strikes it’s now the time to enact that
plan and whisk them away to the land of your fantasies.

The Muse
You’ve always had an amazing talent, something that could set you beyond the
rest. But the others never could see past your flaws, whether it was your past, or
your own appearance and so you remained scorned that is until you met them.
They got your attention whether it was their own skill, beauty, or just passion.
You knew in an instant that you needed them, you wanted them, and their
success became your own.

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You’ll do anything to make sure they get ahead in life, taking out the
oppositon, teaching them personally, or leaving a trail of bodies and bribery. You
will become their guardian angel, the phantom behind their genius, the man
behind the curtain.

Identity
Names: Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason,
Karla, Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song,
Winslow
Look: Fidgety, scarred, pale and
sickly, disabled, well-dressed
Your Backstory
Choose one person to be your
Prodigy. Take three Strings on
them. Give them one String on you.
Somebody spins tales of your
masked alter ego, and is one of
your biggest fans. Take one String
on them.
Darkest Self
There is only one person in the
world who truly understands
your genius and torment, and you
will do anything to make them
yours forever. It’s time to enact
your plan. Kidnap them, eliminate
anyone who interferes and bound
them to you for eternity. Only
when your Prodigy takes harm as
a result of your actions can you
escape your Darkest Self.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Broken eyes, hopless eyes,
fanatical eyes, inspired eyes, jealous
eyes
Origin: Born disfigured, faustian
bargain, terrible accident, targeted
by a rival, crippling insecurity
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Muse move.
• Take another Muse move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You recruit Benefactors to your
cause.
Conditions
Muse Moves
You get Masked Phantom, and
Prodigy, choose one more:
• Masked Phantom
When you wear a mask, no one can
perceive your true identity. Other
players who roll a hit to lash out
physically towards you can choose
to forgo all other effects and rip
your mask off instead.
• Prodigy
You always have exactly one
Prodigy. The first is chosen during
Your Backstory. If you deny and
scorn your Prodigy, lose all strings
on them and choose a new one. If
they deny and scorn you, they lose
all strings on you and you choose a
new one. When you choose a new
Prodigy, give them a String. You
always carry 1 forward to
furthering the career or fame of
your Prodigy.
o The Lair
Your school or setting contains
your secret lair, accessed through
a variety of hidden passages and
ways only you know and have
made your own. When you’re
nearby your lair and you run away,
you can treat a miss as a 7-9, or a
7-9 as a 10, but the person chasing
you is now aware that your lair
exists.
When you have sex with your Prodigy, they can act as if they had The
Sex Lair move until either of you has had sex with another. If you are
Move intimate with someone other than your Prodigy, you can treat them as
your second Prodigy until either of you is intimate with someone else.
o Don Juan Triumphant
When you are wearing your mask,
you can roll with Cold instead of
Hot to turn someone on. Add 1
to your roll if your target is your
Prodigy.
o Punjab Lasso
When you spend time planning
and observing someone, you can
roll Dark instead of Volatile to lash
out physically. When you lash out
physically at someone within your
lair, you may this move regardless
if you have time to plan or not.
o Grasshopper or Scorpion?
When you force your Prodigy to
make a choice between you and
someone else, they choose one:
+They stay with you, you take a
String on them, and they add 1
on their next roll against you.
+They leave you, they lose a
String on you if they have any,
and you add 1 on their next roll
towards interfering with or
harming their other interest.
o Toccata & Fugue
When someone unmasks you for
the first time, give them a String
and mark experience. If this was
done willingly, you gain a String on
them and they may clear a
Condition. If they did this against
your will, give them a Condition
and add 1 forward toward harming
them for this scene.
Playing Necromancer
A loner, frustrated, and polarized. The Necromancer
thinks people are way too confusing; it’s easier to just
be by yourself. Or in your case, in the company of the
dead.

The two stat lines for The Necromancer paint you as

either grim and aggressive (Dark 2 & Volatile 1) or
closed-off and mysterious (Cold 2 & Dark 1). The
Necromancer has low Hot because people are just the
worst.

The Necromancer obviously has very strong connections

to death and dying; Medium and Dark Return will both
only work if an important character is dead, and several
of their moves revolve around harm. This doesn’t mean
The Necromancer has to be violent themselves, but you
are definitely incentivized to seek out blood and death.

When using Dark Return on side characters, it is mostly

up to the MC what ‘slightly off’ means. Perhaps they
lose their capacity to feel fear and pain, or develop a
taste for rotten things. It might be worth giving them
custom principles and reactions as though they were
villains.

The Necromancer’s Darkest Self represents The

Necromancer’s dynamic of extremes; they are either
totally opposed to living company, or they obsessively
desire it. They don’t get a healthy in-between.

The Necromancer
You’ve never really been comfortable with people, friends, that sort of stuff.
People are so much easier to deal with when things aren’t so complicated. A
quick rite over a shallow grave, and ol’ bones is your new best bud.

Credits That’s the dream, of course. People are too damn nosy to leave you alone.

This is a fan Skin for Monsterhearts 2, designed by C.M.Ruebsaat

Check out the game at buriedwithoutceremony.com
Identity
Name: Cabal, Morgan, Nico,
Chiccy, Gus, Kaya, Eliza, Aur,
Tatiana, Jonny, Olivia.
Look: goth, aloof, anxious,
distracted, pastel goth
Your Backstory
You took a walk with someone in
a graveyard. Take two Strings on
them.
Someone won’t leave you alone.
Give them a String on you.
Darkest Self
You can’t stand being by yourself
anymore. It’s infuriating that
nobody seems to understand
what you want. Insert yourself
into every conversation, drag
people along with you into
danger, and do anything to get
people to hang out with you. You
escape your Darkest Self when
someone proves that they
genuinely want to hang out with
you.
Eyes: haunted eyes, hooded eyes,
wondering eyes, esoteric eyes, dark
eyes
Origin: occult knowledge, ghostly
possession, followed by ancestors, I see
dead people, loves zombie movies
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Necromancer move.
❍ Take another Necromancer move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Summon an Undead Horde.
Conditions
Necromancer Moves
Choose two:
❍ Dead to the World
When someone hurts you and you
don’t react, you can increase the
harm you mark by 1. If you do,
take a String on them and give
them a Condition.
❍ NecRomancer
When someone is close to death,
with 2 or more harm marked, you
may roll with Dark to Turn Them
On.
❍ Medium
When you speak to the dead, you
can ask them questions as though
they were still alive as long as you
stand over their grave or body
and hold something significant to
them. Other people can also talk
to the dead by holding hands with
you while you do this.
❍ Ugh, People
When you refuse someone’s
company, mark experience. If they
come along anyway, they may also
mark experience.
❍ Making Friends
When you perform a ritual to
summon the dead from the earth,
they function as a gang until the
sun touches them. If you already
have a gang, you take 1 less harm
while they surround you.
❍ Dark Return
When you perform a rite to stuff
someone’s soul back into their
body, enter your Darkest Self if
you are not already in it, and
bring them back to life just
slightly off. If they are a player
character, they must choose one
of the following options.
✦ Increase their Dark by 1 and
reduce any other stat by 1.
✦ Change their playbook to
reflect their reanimated form.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 Sex When you have sex with someone, ask them if you matter
to them. If they say yes, give them a Condition. If they say

Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Move no, take a String on each other.
Sex Move
When you scream out someone's name
during sex, gain a String on them.
Playing The Neighbor
Uncertain, messy, helpless, undecided.
The Neighbor is all about making
choices, pushing others into making
choices, and throwing themselves
Sometimes when you watch
scary movies you wonder if
monsters and creatures and
things from beyond the grave
are really real. It freaks you

Darkest Self into situations that won't necessarily out pretty bad. But then you
end up in their favor. Play this Skin if just snuggle down onto the
you're not too worried about having couch with all your friends
You feel... you feel like a monster.
the game reward you mechanically, and know that everything is
What kind of monster do you feel
but you want interesting things to be going to be alright.
like? A werewolf, a vampire, a ghost,
happening all around you all the time.
a queen... it can be anything you can
think of. Tell the MC, and they'll hand
Most of the Neighbor's moves include
you that Skin or the closest thing to
something to choose, and lots of
it. It can be different each time. Read
those choices might bite the Neighbor
their Darkest Self: you are drowning
instead of assisting them - that's what
in metaphor. Choking on it. Your body
kind of a mess you are. The moves to
isn't supernatural, but you're gonna
the right of the page are the ones in
take it right to the line. You become
which another player makes a choice.
that Darkest Self.
Hints: make others decide everything
for you, and never settle with their
Advancement decisions. Remember to gaze into
the abyss, even though you're not a

The Neighbor
 Take another Neighbor move. monster.
 Take another Neighbor move.
 Take a move from another Skin. Whenever one of your moves trigger,
 Take a move from another Skin. read the whole thing aloud (except
 You've started a for the list in Nap Fan - it's too long.)


Special Interest Club.
Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
This Skin written by Jackson Tegu for:
Monsterhearts Second Skins
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Transparency is very important when
playing the Neighbor. Show everyone
how to push your buttons.
With Mixed Messages, the Neighbor is
making assumptions about the other
character's intentions. The two parts
of it aren't symetrical - if you fail to
shut them down, that doesn't mean
they're turned on.
If you choose Precarious, read the
move aloud. Also, use your character's
voice to drop none-too-subtle hints
about presents you'd like, and beg for
another chance where appropriate. Be
prepared to remind the other players
about the move.
Name
Choose a name:
Hamish, Luke, Margaret, Ming,
Muhammad, Natalie, Sasha, Sofia,
Vicente, Wei
a common name, a friendly name,
an unassuming name, a lucky name,
a human name
Look
Circle one in each list:
boyish, hot mess, stilted, easy-going,
femme
smiling eyes, confused eyes,
hopeful eyes, sunny eyes, averted eyes
Origin
Circle one:
boy next door, girl next door,
newly social, latchkey kid, divorce kid
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
  Mixed Messages
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)

Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
  Two Eyes
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You live next to someone; your
bedroom windows face. Choose:
SS you watch them through the
blinds and they've noticed, each
gain 1 String on one another;
SS you leave your blinds up while
you change, each gain 2 Strings
on one another.
You made out with someone a while
ago. Gain a String on them and give
them 2 Strings on you.
Carry Forward Neighbor Moves
Choose three:
 Last One Picked
When someone special overlooks
you, choose:
SS publicize it and give them
Conditions a Condition,
SS let them see you crying and
take a String on them.
When you're alone with someone,
decide if you're attracted to them or
not.
SS If you are, tell them why you can't
Notes be together and roll to shut them
down, adding 1 to the roll.
SS If you're not, tell them all the
things they've got going for them
(to let them down easy) and roll to
turn them on, adding 1 to the roll.
When you take your glasses off, add
1 to your hot. You actually need your
Harm
glasses, so subtract 1 from rolls where
sight matters.
 Lucky I Guess
Experience Points: When you remain oblivious to
troubling or supernatural occurrences,
carry 1 forward.

>> advance
 All the Wrong Places
Strings When you help someone you're sweet
on look for love elsewhere, choose:
SS they carry 1 forward to realizing
that love,
SS the two of you gain Strings on
one another.
Other Moves
 Precarious
(If you pick this, read it aloud.)
When someone gives you a gift or
another chance, give them a String.
 Spooked
When you run into someone's arms,
they choose:
SS you mark experience,
SS they become their Darkest Self.
If it's an NPC, MC chooses: you mark
experience, or they make a hard move.
 Self-Deprecating
When you talk shit about yourself to
someone, they choose:
SS argue and give you a String,
SS let it slide and shut you down.
If it's an NPC, MC chooses: they argue
and give you a String, or they mock
you and the MC makes a hard move.
 Home Life
When a monster sees what a normal
life you have, they choose:
SS they gain the Condition monstrous,
SS you gain the Condition delicious,
SS you carry 1 forward to making
them feel human.
 Nap Fan
As soon as you fall asleep somewhere,
choose two below for the MC to detail.
The MC will tell you when you wake
up, and then tell you the details.
SS something has been left for you,
SS someone unexpected is nearby,
SS someone's been trying to
contact you,
SS something happened at home,
SS something has been canceled,
SS something has been broken,
SS you had a nice dream.
Sex Move
When you scream out someone's name
during sex, gain a String on them.
Playing The Neighbor
Uncertain, messy, helpless, undecided.
The Neighbor is all about making
choices, pushing others into making
choices, and throwing themselves
Sometimes when you watch
scary movies you wonder if
monsters and creatures and
things from beyond the grave
are really real. It freaks you

Darkest Self into situations that won't necessarily out pretty bad. But then you
end up in their favor. Play this Skin if just snuggle down onto the
you're not too worried about having couch with all your friends
You feel... you feel like a monster.
the game reward you mechanically, and know that everything is
What kind of monster do you feel
but you want interesting things to be going to be alright.
like? A werewolf, a vampire, a ghost,
happening all around you all the time.
a queen... it can be anything you can
think of. Tell the MC, and they'll hand
Most of the Neighbor's moves include
you that Skin or the closest thing to
something to choose, and lots of
it. It can be different each time. Read
those choices might bite the Neighbor
their Darkest Self: you are drowning
instead of assisting them - that's what
in metaphor. Choking on it. Your body
kind of a mess you are. The moves to
isn't supernatural, but you're gonna
the right of the page are the ones in
take it right to the line. You become
which another player makes a choice.
that Darkest Self.
Hints: make others decide everything
for you, and never settle with their
Advancement decisions. Remember to gaze into
the abyss, even though you're not a

The Neighbor
 Take another Neighbor move. monster.
 Take another Neighbor move.
 Take a move from another Skin. Whenever one of your moves trigger,
 Take a move from another Skin. read the whole thing aloud (except
 You've started a for the list in Nap Fan - it's too long.)


Special Interest Club.
Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
This Skin written by Jackson Tegu for:
Monsterhearts Second Skins
photographsoflightning.com/mhss
Transparency is very important when
playing the Neighbor. Show everyone
how to push your buttons.
With Mixed Messages, the Neighbor is
making assumptions about the other
character's intentions. The two parts
of it aren't symetrical - if you fail to
shut them down, that doesn't mean
they're turned on.
If you choose Precarious, read the
move aloud. Also, use your character's
voice to drop none-too-subtle hints
about presents you'd like, and beg for
another chance where appropriate. Be
prepared to remind the other players
about the move.
Name
Choose a name:
Hamish, Luke, Margaret, Ming,
Muhammad, Natalie, Sasha, Sofia,
Vicente, Wei
a common name, a friendly name,
an unassuming name, a lucky name,
a human name
Look
Circle one in each list:
boyish, hot mess, stilted, easy-going,
femme
smiling eyes, confused eyes,
hopeful eyes, sunny eyes, averted eyes
Origin
Circle one:
boy next door, girl next door,
newly social, latchkey kid, divorce kid
Name:
Stats
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1
  Mixed Messages
Hot
(Turn Someone On,
Manipulate an NPC)

Cold
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)
  Two Eyes
Volatile
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark
(Gaze Into The Abyss)
Your Backstory
You live next to someone; your
bedroom windows face. Choose:
SS you watch them through the
blinds and they've noticed, each
gain 1 String on one another;
SS you leave your blinds up while
you change, each gain 2 Strings
on one another.
You made out with someone a while
ago. Gain a String on them and give
them 2 Strings on you.
Carry Forward Neighbor Moves
Choose three:
 Last One Picked
When someone special overlooks
you, choose:
SS publicize it and give them
Conditions a Condition,
SS let them see you crying and
take a String on them.
When you're alone with someone,
decide if you're attracted to them or
not.
SS If you are, tell them why you can't
Notes be together and roll to shut them
down, adding 1 to the roll.
SS If you're not, tell them all the
things they've got going for them
(to let them down easy) and roll to
turn them on, adding 1 to the roll.
When you take your glasses off, add
1 to your hot. You actually need your
Harm
glasses, so subtract 1 from rolls where
sight matters.
 Lucky I Guess
Experience Points: When you remain oblivious to
troubling or supernatural occurrences,
carry 1 forward.

>> advance
 All the Wrong Places
Strings When you help someone you're sweet
on look for love elsewhere, choose:
SS they carry 1 forward to realizing
that love,
SS the two of you gain Strings on
one another.
Other Moves
 Precarious
(If you pick this, read it aloud.)
When someone gives you a gift or
another chance, give them a String.
 Spooked
When you run into someone's arms,
they choose:
SS you mark experience,
SS they become their Darkest Self.
If it's an NPC, MC chooses: you mark
experience, or they make a hard move.
 Self-Deprecating
When you talk shit about yourself to
someone, they choose:
SS argue and give you a String,
SS let it slide and shut you down.
If it's an NPC, MC chooses: they argue
and give you a String, or they mock
you and the MC makes a hard move.
 Home Life
When a monster sees what a normal
life you have, they choose:
SS they gain the Condition monstrous,
SS you gain the Condition delicious,
SS you carry 1 forward to making
them feel human.
 Nap Fan
As soon as you fall asleep somewhere,
choose two below for the MC to detail.
The MC will tell you when you wake
up, and then tell you the details.
SS something has been left for you,
SS someone unexpected is nearby,
SS someone's been trying to
contact you,
SS something happened at home,
SS something has been canceled,
SS something has been broken,
SS you had a nice dream.
Playing the Proxy
Victim, villain, slaver, and slave. The Proxy is under the eye of a cruel entity,
forcing them to choose between their own survival or the survival on
others. Aware of their actions some times and other times not, the Proxy
dawns the mask in order to serve it’s master. Their task, to torment the
target that It gives them and bring these poor unfortunate souls closer to
It’s grasp. When their target’s spirit is broken and consumed, the Proxy can
rest easy if only for a bit. Another one in it’s ranks.

The two stat choices for the Proxy allow you to choose a path of a violent
and dangerous being (Volatile 2 & Dark 1) or the silent watcher who waits
among the tree (Dark 2 & Cold 1). With a consistenly low Hot stat, they
are unhinged and the feeling of something being off is ever present. From
their masked alter ego to their increasing paranoia and prey mentality; the
theme of desperation and survival are big for the Proxy.

While you play the Proxy, your information gathering is your greatest toll.
Use the Proxy’s ability to quickly gain strings in order to entice your targets
into the grasp of It. Entice and over experience for investigating your clues,
taking trips into the woods or abandoned houses at night, or convincing
them to poke around in things they probably shouldn’t; then use The Sick-
ness to force them to take their own The Sickness and continuing the chain.

If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to describe your notes, videos, or voicemails
as disturbingly and puzzlingly as possible. Inflicting the right conditions is
how you can gain leverage against your target and force them deeper into
It’s control. Make them vunerable, your goal is not to break them instantly
but rather wear them down and when they are at their weakest, It will
come for them. The Proxy
It has chosen it’s champion, it’s slave, it’s hunter. It doesn’t have a known origin,
and cannot be comprehended but one thing for sure: It is dangerous. Ever swell-
ing darkness, and living in our deepest and darkest of imaginations. The Proxy
is a plaything of It. The Proxy may not understand why the Sickness has been
passed onto them, but it knows that if it does not play the game It is presenting
to them, than a fate worse than death awaits them.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Art created by Catonice
But the Proxy has a way out, pass the Sickness on and hunt for It’s favor. Every
victim the Proxy stalks and hunt is another few years, days, or perhaps only
hours added onto the Proxy’s lifespan. As long as they continue to be useful to It
they can survive.

Identity
Names: Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan,
Jessie, Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler,
Zack
Look: Baby face, carrying a
camera, clinging briars, gangly,
sickly, shifty
Your Backstory
You’ve been spying on everyone for
a while now. Gain one string on
everyone. Gain two extra strings on
your subject.
You’ve also been obsessively
recording yourself, and someone
has discovered and watched some
of your footage. That person takes
a string on you.
It starts with five strings on you.
Darkest Self
You’ve become desperate now - It
is closing in, and your time is
running out. You’ll do anything to
save yourself, and you know what
It wants. Find someone close to
your subject and offer them up -
either kill them yourself in Its
name, or offer them up to It
directly. You escape your Darkest
Self when you have sacrificed
someone else in your place or you
face the music yourself.
Eyes: Angry eyes, dead eyes,
paranoid eyes, sorrowful eyes,
veiled eyes
Origin: Stalked since childhood,
delved too far, created a hoax that
became true, student flmmaker,
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Proxy move.
• Take another Proxy move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Secret Cult.
Conditions
Proxy Moves
You get The Sickness, and choose
one more:
• The Sickness
Choose one character to be your
subject. You may change which
character is your subject at any
time, but you must have least
three strings on your new subject.
Everytime you spend a string on
your subject, It takes a string on
them.
o Cryptic Bullshit
When you Shut Someone Down
indirectly, through sending them a
written or video message, roll Dark
instead of Cold. This can consist of
mysterious but meaningful images,
phrases written in ciphers, or re-
curring symbols. Add +1 to the roll
if it’s against your subject.
o Path of Black Leaves
When a character attempts to run
away from you, you may spend
a string. Unless you allow it, you
cannot be run away from. You will
always be around the next corner,
hiding behind a nearby tree, or
your victims will find themselves
repeatedly passing through the
same hallways and doors without
actually getting anywhere. Gain a
string on your subject if you allow
them to escape, instead of
spending a string.
o Am I Interrupting?
Gain a string when you
successfully gain access to your
subject’s home or their social
media accounts and leave a sign
for them to find. When infiltrating
your subject’s home you do not
trigger security, or leave accidental
traces of your prescence.
o Stalk
When you gaze into the abyss
about your subject, On a 10 up,
gain a string on them and you
know exactly where they are
and what they’re doing. On a 7-9
choose one:
+ You can see what they’re doing,
but It gains a string on you.
+ You can see what they’re doing,
but take 1 harm.
o Masked and Dangerous
When you are masked, others
must Keep Their Cool before they
can attempt to Turn You On, Shut
You Down, or Lash Out Physically at
you. If you successfully Run Away
while masked, people will only
have vauge and hazy recollections
of you.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, make them your new
subject (even if they don’t meet the criteria), and both of you

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move mark experience. This counts as spending a string on them.
Playing the Reaper
Legendary, sought after, burdened, and inadequate. The Reaper has a great
deal of power, but it comes with responsibility and using it to benefit
themselves personally is problematic. Others suck up to the Reaper, but the
Reaper wonders if anyone cares about them, personally, or just their job.
They often live in the shadow of their predecessor. It’s hard to live up to
the name.

The two stat choices for the Reaper present two very different sides of the
same coin. A character who is cruel and very much in touch with their
position as the ferrymen of the dead (Dark 2 & Cold 1) or a Reaper who is
much more in touch with their emotions and very much here to stop to
punch a timecard (Volatile 2 & Hot 1). Your powers of death make you leaps
and bound stronger than most people and other skins, however just keep
in mind the code of the reaper, which is a guillotine that hangs over your
neck at all times.

All in a Day’s Work and Don’t Fear the Reaper allow you to play to the duality
of your nature, rewarding you for just following orders if you choose to
simply stick to the protocol or encouraging you to go off-book and aid in
whatever problems you deem fit. Are you a Reaper because you are fulfill-
ing a debt or an obligation, or perhaps you see yourself as a dark avenger
ready to strike at those that would bring the realm of the Underworld into
play.

Your powers of death make you ever so versatile for every situation, choose
The Reaping and Gate of the Underworld if you wish to play as something
more akin to the Chosen. Choosing to go with Convene, and License to
Depart puts you more on the role of a spiritual medium than your typical
loose cannon Reaper.
Using your Sex Move not only brings them into the messy business of
reaping but may also aid them at their darkest hour. When Darkest Self is
in effect, you are “fired” from guiding, ferrying, and executing, those powers
should be lost as well. It is important that, without the mantle of Reaper,
you are just a normal person.
Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Jadanol and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo from “Stranger Things”, owned by Netflix.
The Reaper
They are the teens with the strange jobs they are always going to, always
cancelling at the last minute because they got “called in”. They might not want
this job but deep down they know it’s what makes them special. The Reaper is
a defender, a salary man, and most of the time it’s errand boy. The Reaper is
called in to face the threats to the sanctity of life and death, the Ghoul that lives
forever, he’s on the list. That Ghost that keeps attacking the students after dark,
they’re another name for the reaping.
The Reaper is an ally to all things living and scourge to everything undead or
immortal. Armed with great power, and even greater responsibility.
But sometimes you just need to let loose and break a few rules.
Identity
Names: Alexander, Chandra, Cla-
rice, Delphine, Edward, Hannibal,
Isis, Rex, Somchai, Yukio
Look: Concealed, pale, average,
lanky, nervous
Your Backstory
Someone knows your secret, and
how to reach your superiors. They
take a String on you.
You know someone who is terrified
of death and all it’s friends, take a
String on them.
Darkest Self
You’ve abused your powers too
long and are now fired. Losing the
title and the perks that come with
being a Reaper. You have thrown
away what makes you special,
and now no one will care about
you. You will do anything to get it
back. To escape your Darkest Self,
you must resolve and repent for
your violations of the code to the
satisfaction of your superiors, or
when you take on an even greater
mission.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Eyes: Hollow Eyes, Normal Eyes,
Ashamed Eyes, Judgmental Eyes,
Sarcastic Eyes, Nurturing Eyes
Origin: stumbled on to the power,
the replacement, heir to the scythe,
it’s just my day job
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Gain the remaining Powers of
Death.
• Take another Reaper move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You are apart of a Reaper Squad.
Conditions
Reaper Moves
You get Code of the Reaper and
choose one more move.
• Code of the Reaper
When you call upon your Powers of
Death for official Reaper business.
you roll your powers normally.
When you use them for any other
reason, roll Dark. On a 10+, your
powers work normally. On a 7-9,
choose one:
+ Your superiors take notice of
your violation.
+ Someone learns a secret of
your trade, they gain a String.
+ You pay the blood price, take 1
Harm.
o All in a Day’s Work
When you successfully complete a
task assigned by your superiors or
when you risk your job for
someone, mark experience.
o Not Their Time
When you intercede and attempt
to bring someone back from the
dead or perhaps saving yourself.
Roll Dark. On a 10+, fate is rewrit-
ten and they/you return on the
brink with 3 Harm. On a 7-9, they
only come back to finish their goal.
o Don’t Fear the Reaper
When someone flirts with you,
bribes you, or attempts to turn
you on successfully, take a string
on them. If you refuse, they lose a
String on you.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, they hold 1. The next time
they would mark their fourth Harm Box, they instead spend
Move their hold.
Powers of Death
Choose two Powers of Death to
begin with.
o The Reaping
You have a specially made reaper
weapon. When using this weapon,
treat rolling a 7-9 on lash out
physically checks against your
targets as if you have rolled a 10+.
o Convene
You can call for the spirits of the
deceased and speak with them as
long as you possess a personal item
of theirs.
o License to Depart
With a short prayer, you may
instantly send any spirit, demon,
or otherworldly power back to
whence they came. If this entity is
stronger than you, however, you
must weaken it in order to
successfully send it.
o Alter Fate
By touching a person, you may
clear them of ailments or
conditions. They are healed but
choose yourself or someone else
willing to gain that condition or
ailment. You may spend a string on
someone who is unwilling to have
them gain it instead.
o Gates of the Underworld
You can bring yourself and anyone
you are touching to the
underworld and your headquarters.
Beware many things call the
underworld it’s home.
Sex Move
The person you have sex with smells
like you afterward, and gains the
Condition scented. If they face their
peers before scrubbing it off, they
mark experience.
Darkest Self
Now, right now, it's time to rain
stones down upon the bullies and
the excluders. It's time to wreck their
precious stuff, to shove them back so
hard that they'll never even dream of
messing with you or anyone ever, ever
again. You escape your Darkest Self
when you hurt one of those people
more than they've ever hurt anyone
else... and more than you meant to.
Advancement
 Take another Sasquatch move.
 Take another Sasquatch move.
 Take a move from another Skin.
 Take a move from another Skin.


You find a Secret Club.
Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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Playing The Sasquatch
Shy, awkward, private, honest. The
Sasquatch is all about watching from
the sidelines and having a painfully Everyone around you seems
hard time in social situations. to have it figured out. They
flirt and joke and walk
When you're right there, you can around holding hands. You
make others act first by using Musk don't have it figured out.
and Icebreaker. When it hasn't been
established that you're somewhere
When people look at you, you
want to disappear.
else right now, you can watch
the scene unfold using Hidden In
The Scenery. To transition from
participating in the scene to observing
it, use Disappear.
Pick Icebreaker or Understanding if you
want to know people better than they
know you. However, it's quite possible
people won't want to be around you
after you use these moves on them:
that's part of the tension of having
powers like these.
The Sasquatch
Pick The Long Fuse if you want to
explore a kind of after-the-fact anger
where, after you bottle it up, it comes
bubbling out later as rage or self-
harm. Oh, and “later” means the next
reasonable opportunity. You'll see it.
Name Look
Your given move, Musk, will kick in Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
whenever you sweat around people:
whether it's at basketball practice, Ainsley, Amanda, Bjorn, Cedar, awkward, sweet, tentative,
outside on a hot day, or because a cute Donavan, Gavin, Heather, Mouse, more to love, hirsute
person is talking to you. Orion, Shizu
sparkling eyes, wide eyes,
You can rid yourself of your backstory a peaceful name, a hippie name, shallow eyes, sensitive eyes,
Condition just like any Condition. an unremarkable name, a hidden name, forgettable eyes
the name of an outsider
The Sasquatch can sometimes be so
good at making themselves scarce Origin
that they write themselves out of the Circle one:
story. To avoid this, keep your eye out
for things you want to see come true, abandoned, transfer student,
and then take a few steps in from the walked out of the forest,
sideline to give those things a good,
solid push.
was a quiet child, no family photos
Name: Carry Forward Sasquatch Moves  The Long Fuse
When you or someone wrapped in
You get this one, and choose two more: your arms would take harm, you may
negate that harm. If you do so, name
 Musk something that you hold dear - if you
Stats You have a distinct smell, unpleasant
to some, intriguing to others. When
don't destroy that something later, do
Add 1 to one of these: yourself the harm then.
you sweat in the presence of other
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1 Conditions people, roll with volatile. On a 10 up,
the MC gives you a String on someone
 Hidden In The Scenery
When it appears that you're not
there and they choose: around, you may roll with dark. On
SS compliment you, a 10 up, you're there and you remain
 SS apologize to you, completely unnoticed. • On a 7-9, you're
Hot
SS give themselves to you. there, and somebody sees. If they don't
• On a 7-9, the MC gives you a String draw attention to you, they gain a
(Turn Someone On, on someone there, and that character String on you at the end of the scene.
Manipulate an NPC) gives you a Condition, delivered in the
Notes most appropriate way.
 Negatives
 When you really, really want specific
 Icebreaker evidence of yourself to disappear,
Cold You radiate awkwardness and people be it a physical object or something
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) don't know how to talk around you. from the memory of someone with no
When someone speaks to break a Strings on you, roll with dark. On a 10
silence or to start a new conversation, up, it happens. Those tracks are gone.
 you may roll with dark. On a 10 up, • On a 7-9 the evidence or memory is
Volatile
choose two of these questions for gone, but the pieces don't all add up: a
them to blurt truthful answers to, mystery remains.
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
Harm
whether or not you actually ask.
• On a 7-9, choose one question and
 Disappear
during this conversation you both blurt
 When you run away, on a 10 up you
out truthful answers to it.
may instead choose this result:
Dark Experience Points:
SS Who do you want to make out with?
SS What don't you want me
SS you slip from view and remain
(Gaze Into The Abyss) there, invisible.
to find out?

>> advance
SS What do you intend to do?
On a 7-9, add this option to the list:
SS you disappear on the spot, causing
SS What do you wish I'd do?
wild confusion, and the witness
Your Backstory Strings SS What are you scared of?
SS What are you ashamed of?
who cares the most about you
gets a String on you.
SS Do you like me?
You've been a wallflower all your life,
but someone finally noticed you.  Understanding
When you hold someone close, gain
Give them a String.
a String on them.
Someone makes fun of you. What do
they say? They give you a Condition,
Other Moves
and you gain 2 Strings on them.
Playing The Seer
Insightful, curious and paranoid. The Seer knows there is
more to life than what most can see, and they’re going
to dig until they uncover every last little secret being
kept from them.

The two stat options for the Seer will always have high
Dark, because you are always digging deeper than you
should. They differ in whether you use their gifts to put
yourself on top of the social ladder (Hot 1) or if you
stockpile knowledge and gossip to use against people
(Cold 1).

The Sight should only be triggered in scenes where a

main character is present, unless the side character is
particularly important. Whims of the Heart, for example,
shouldn’t trigger when a side character falls in love with
another side character, and Curse of Endings shouldn’t
trigger unless a main character is around to watch the
side character mess up their life.

The Seer likes conspiracies and secrets; they don’t

necessarily have to be big. If someone cheated on their
girlfriend and told their best friend about it, that is as
much a conspiracy as all the theatre kids sacrificing
dreams to a dark power each Halloween.

The Seer
Everything is connected. There are tangled webs weaving the world together,
there for anyone who noticed to pluck and tease at. Conspiracies, secrets,
gossip... it’s all yours.

Credits You see everything.

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Identity
Name: Cariolanus, Petra, Selene,
Rory, Alex, Steph, Olivia, Chance,
Ix, Jasmine, Del, Kare
Look: distressed, in a fog,
sleepless, kinda noir, knowing smile detective movies, born with visions,
Your Backstory
You know where someone goes
when they want to be alone. Take
a String on them.
You’re suspicious that someone
knows more than they let on.
Give them two Strings on you.
Darkest Self
You can see omens and clues
everywhere. How everything ties
together in one big knot, linking
every little conspiracy and piece
of knowledge you’ve uncovered.
Now that you know everything,
it’s time to share it with the
world. Reveal every secret, every
lie, every untruth. Show everyone
their rotten underbellies. Escape
your Darkest Self when you
become genuinely surprised by
something you didn’t know.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold 1
Seer Moves
You get The Sight, and choose one
Eyes: prying eyes, watchful eyes,
more:
vacant eyes, clear eyes, muddy eyes
● The Sight
Origin: let spirits in, unlocked brain, You see more than average.
Choose two ways your Sight gives
gossipy you Visions.
Visions are triggered using Fate.
Strings and Fate You start with two Fate.
❍ Lift the Veil
When you help someone find
their way deeper into the
mystical and weird, mark
experience and gain one Fate.
❍ Conspiracy Web
When you manage to connect
someone to a mystery or strange
Harm event, take a String on them and
gain one Fate.
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍ ❍ Ever Deeper
When you dig into strange
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats. mysteries as you Gaze Into the
❍ Take another Seer move. Abyss, you may ask the Abyss a
❍ Take the remaining Visions. follow-up question.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You have Weird Sisters.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 2 Sex
When you have sex with someone, ask them if they have
secrets to share with you. If they do, they must answer a
question you ask honestly, and you gain one Fate. If they
Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move don’t, you take a String on them.
Visions
Choose two that you see:
❍ Blood and Fury
When someone Skirts Death, gain
one Fate. Spend Fate to have the
final say in how bad it turns out
when someone takes harm.
❍ Whims of the Heart
When someone falls in love or has
their heart broken, gain one Fate.
Spend Fate to Pull Strings without
spending any Strings even if you
aren’t present in a scene.
❍ Things Speak
When someone gives weight to an
inanimate object, gain one Fate.
Spend Fate to determine when
and where an object gets lost, and
who finds it.
❍ Can’t Lie To Me
When someone tells a big lie to
you, gain one Fate. Spend Fate to
read someone’s thoughts for a
moment.
❍ Curse of Endings
When someone completely messes
up their own life, gain one Fate.
Spend Fate to give someone the
Condition doomed or fighting
fate.
Sex Move
When you have sex with someone,
it counts as submerging yourself in
water. Since all oceans tell you their
secrets, gain a String on someone else
they’ve had sex with.
Darkest Self
People have mistreated you and made
you an outcast here. It’s time to show
them how it feels to be lost at sea,
to be apart from the things you have
loved, to have parts of your identity
stolen from you. So you will flood
the Earth. You will destroy what they
cherish. And you will take their pelts.
You escape your Darkest Self when this
place reminds you of home, or when
you recognize what you came here for.
Advancement
 Take another Selkie move.
 Take another Selkie move.
 Take a move from another skin.


Take a move from another skin.
You’ve enchanted a
Group of Fishermen.
 Add 1 to Hot (max 3).
 Add 1 to Cold (max 3).
 Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).
 Add 1 to Dark (max 3).
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Playing The Selkie The weight and crash of the water was your first
home. There are times you miss it terribly, and raise
your keening voice, and those that can hear are
Confused, homesick, beckoning. Their
moved... closer. You have a removable pelt that you
moves evoke homesickness and draw
were born in beneath the waves. When you wear it,
elemental power from bodies of water.
you look just like a seal. And when you remove
Selkies have an inner yearning that
it, you feel raw and beautiful.
other people instinctively respond to.
You’re living on land now, far
The Selkie is a creature caught
away from everything you’ve
between kingdoms. When she removes
her pelt she appears human and can
known; shocked by newness and
possibility, burdened by longing
walk the land as humans do. When
and the tyranny of choice. The air
she dons her pelt she resembles a seal
moves fast over you.
and can return to the ocean kingdom.
Except, if she returns to that ocean
What do they call it?
kingdom, she can’t leave again.
Ah, wind.
When your seal pelt is missing, you
are still able to enter the water and
swim as well as a human can. Outer
Skin doesn’t work, but all your other
moves do.
Mechanically, it’s great for you when
someone else has your pelt. If you
The Selkie
throw yourself into doing the tasks
they put before you, Their Word will
provide Strings, bonuses, and plenty of
interesting situations. It also gives you
a reason to care about the same things
other characters care about. Forcing
them to return it might not be as fun. Name Look
Choose a name: Circle one in each list:
Your sex move counts as submerging
yourself in water for Body of Water, Bersh, Dominic, Fiona, Jasdeep, John, mussed, bedraggled, damp, sleek,
as being soaking wet for Siren Song, Louie, Mattieu, Nula, Phillipa, Rowan riveting, unforgettable
and would easily trigger Salt if you
were crying. a distant name, a watery name, confused eyes, deep eyes,
a name that implies change, glistening eyes, oil-drop eyes,
Outer Skin states that if you return a name that has undergone translation far away eyes
to your homeland, the character’s
story is over and you need to create
a new character. This only applies if Origin
The Selkie returns home to its family Circle one:
and its former life. Merely swimming
around in the ocean won’t trigger this like grandmother,
requirement. enticed from the sea by art,
breaking the rules about land-dwelling,
curious about the human form
Name: Carry Forward Selkie Moves  Siren Song
When you’re soaking wet, you can sing
You get the first two, then choose one: a haunting song and roll with cold.
On a 10 up, all who hear it stumble
 Outer Skin entranced toward you, though a
Stats When you wear your pelt you look like
a seal. Without it, you can swim like
character that takes harm will stop
Add 1 to one of these: suddenly and gain the Condition dazed.
a human, but with it you can breathe • On a 7-9, all who hear it stumble
Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1 Conditions underwater and swim like the dickens,
and, if you want to, return to The Deep
entranced toward you until they would
face harm or physical danger, and then
Kingdom. If you do return there, it’s for they choose:
good, so make a new character. SS press forward and take the harm,
 SS or stop suddenly and gain the
Hot
 Their Word Condition dazed.
People can steal your pelt, but never
(Turn Someone On, destroy it. When someone withholds
Manipulate an NPC)
 Salt
your pelt and demands that you do
Notes something for them before they’ll
Whenever your tears mix with water,
roll with dark. On a 10 up, choose
give it back, add 1 to rolls you make someone you want to see. They show

in pursuit of that task. If they don’t up, with or without reason. • On a
Cold return your pelt, take a String on them, 7-9 they still do, but they have the
(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) and they'll give you another task. Condition drained and they bring
trouble with them.
Pelt Held By:
  Ocean’s Breath
Volatile  Body of Water
When you feel homesick, roll with
cold. On a 10 up, choose one for the
(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)
Harm When you go a day without
submerging yourself in water, take
MC to detail:
SS the ocean brings forth something
 1 harm. Whenever you submerge that it thinks will make you feel
yourself in water and can relax, heal 1 better,
Dark Experience Points: harm and 1 Condition. SS the ocean takes away something
(Gaze Into The Abyss) that it thinks is bothering you.
 Catch of the Day On a 7-9, choose as above, but the

>> advance
Whenever you don’t understand what’s ocean doesn’t understand the human
going on or what someone means, world very well and causes serious or
Your Backstory Strings and it gets you into trouble or leads unexplainable damage in the process.
you to make unwise choices, mark
You’ve seen someone swimming, experience.
but they either didn’t see or didn’t
recognize you. Gain a String on them.

Someone stole your pelt, withholding Other Moves

it from you to make you their errand
boy. They said they'll give it back. Each
gain a String on one another, and they
say the first task they've given you.
Playing The Demi-God
Confident, cocky, conniving and convincing. The Demi-God has a bit of a hero
complex. Feeling the intense need to be “perfect” and “worthy”, the Demi-God
will go to great lengths to prove their worth. Even if it is to the detriment of
others. Especially if it is to the detriment of others. In fact, one of the best
ways to build yourself up is to tear others down right?

Both stat options exemplify The Demi-God’s power and beauty. Showcasing
either their God-Like image (Hot 2 & Volatile 1) or their legendary strength
(Volatile 2 & Hot 1). Either way these stat options highlight The Demi-God’s
biggest flaw, their inability to be distant. After all, every person who gives
them attention is another adoring Fan.

You start with the base moves Act of God and Zeus Complex. These moves
highlight who the Demi God is at their core. A show off. Gathering Fans is
incredibly important for the Demi-God because the amount of people who
love them can lead to some interesting rewards. The move Zero to Hero can
help rack up those Fans.

Deus Ex Machina plays on the Demi-Gods hero complex and gives them the
chance to “save the day”. While Hunk-ules and Legendary deal with the Demi-
Gods sexual prowess and irresistible nature. The move Pedestal lets them use
their status as a way to knock someone down a peg.

The Demi-God
The universe is bigger than some might believe. You know this to be true. You
have always been more than human. You’ve always been strong, powerful,
charming and damn near perfect. The legends that speak of what you are, fall
short.

But you’ve always felt the need to prove something. To show everyone that you are
Credits deserving of the power and perfection that you’ve been given. That you are worthy.

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Identity
Name: Ajax, Athena, Cade, Cleo,
Daphne, Dimitri, Lee Ori, Penelope,
Selene
Look: chiseled, desperate, hand
crafted, shimmering, statuesque
Your Backstory
Someone told you they didn’t need
your help. They take a String on you.
Someone made you feel worthy when
you didn’t feel it yourself. Take a
String on them.
Darkest Self
You’re done feeling like you're not
good enough. Show everyone just
how perfect you can be. Win the
contests, steal their girlfriends, beat
everyone at everything. You escape
your Darkest Self when you have
irrevocably, painfully and publicly
lost.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: cocky eyes, confident eyes,
heroic eyes, joking eyes, pleading
eyes
Origin: abandoned by the gods,
fulfilling a prophecy, greek
mythology, sent on a quest,
stolen by humans
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Demi-God move.
❍ Take another Demi-God move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet a Half-Sibling.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark -1
Volatile 1 Dark -1
Demi-God Moves
❍ Deus Ex Machina
When stepping in to take care of someone
You get Act of God and Zeus Complex and
else's problem you carry +1 Forward to any
choose one more :
rolls involved with solving their issue for
them. If they didn’t ask for your help,
⬤ Act of God
You can perform a minor act of God. Work carry +1 Forward, and take a String on
them.
with your MC to determine your brand of
Godly Powers (lightning, water, storms,
❍ Zero to Hero
strength, speed etc.). Roll with Volatile. On
God you’re hot. When someone attempts
a 10 up you perform an incredible feat,
choose one: to Turn You On, give them the Condition
deal 1 Harm, Fan.
take +1 Forward,
you gain a Fan. ❍ Hunk-ules
• On a 7-9 you perform the feat, but When you Turn Someone On successfully
nobody witnesses it, so what’s the point. √ and they give themselves to you take an
• On a failure, you lose a Fan. additional String on them.
⬤ Zeus Complex ❍ Legendary
If someone you have sex with talks
Your reputation and your name mean
favorably about the experience with
everything to you. Your Fans mean
everything to you. Keep track of how
someone else, mark experience.
many characters currently have the
❍ Pedestal
Condition Fan. That number can lead to
incredible things. (The following list does
If you are attempting Shut Someone Down
in order to build yourself up, roll with
not stack, the level you are in is the only
Hot.
reward you receive)
5-6 Fans: carry +1 Forward to Turn
Someone On.
7-9 Fans: carry +1 Forward to use Act of
God.
10-19 Fans: automatically succeed when
attempting to Turn Someone On.
20+ Fans: mark experience for every
sexual partner you have while in this
tier.
Sex When you have sex with someone they must tell you if you are
the best they’ve ever had. If you are, mark experience. If not, the
Move person who was the best gets a String on you
Playing The Seer
Omniscient, observant, and manipulative. The Seer thrives on knowledge and
understanding. The Seer knows how to gather information and use it for
their own personal gain. They are watchful, insightful, and can literally see
right through people. Their currency is secrets. The more they know about
someone, the more power they have.

Both stat options highlight the Seer’s strange ability and their distant
demeanor. Your choice is if they lean more towards a lone wolf who can read
people (Cold 2, Dark 1) or someone slightly more reserved with a thirst for
information and dirt (Dark 2, Cold 1).

You start with base moves Your Eyes and When Tomorrow Passed. Which are
your abilities as a Seer. Optic Nerve and I Can Show You the World can enhance
your inherent abilities to make you more powerful but force you to
relinquish some power of your own.

I See You gives you an advantage in volatile situations. While Dilated helps you
remain aloof and distant. Transparent rewards you for going against the Seer’s
nature of exposing secrets.

The Seer
Their eyes are your eyes. Their life is yours to view. You know their secrets and their
weaknesses. You’ve always found yourself on the outside. Never fully accepted
anywhere. But you are everywhere.

Some think you’re a good listener. Others call you a stalker. Either way they’re right.
You know people, you understand them.
Credits
You can see them.
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Identity
Name: Ellie, Flynn, Jace, Kyle, Marcus,
Moria ,Rey, Silva, Xavier
Look: closed off, collected,
comfortable, confident, outcast
Your Backstory
You’ve seen through someone in their
weakest moment, gain a String on
them.
Someone managed to blind you, they
take 2 Strings on you.
Eyes: blinking eyes, color
changing eyes, colorless eyes,
heterochromic eyes, searching
eyes
Origin: born this way, delivered
in a dream, hereditary, stolen
power
Strings
Seer Moves
You get Your Eyes and When Tomorrow
Passed choose one more:
⬤ Your Eyes
You have the ability to look through
someone else's eyes as if they were your
own if you have seen their eyes before.
Roll with Dark. On a 10 up it succeeds, and
you can witness a full scene. • On a 7-9 it
succeeds but they can tell someone is in
their head.
⬤ When Tomorrow Passed
You are able to see glimpses of an
individual's past or future. Roll Gaze into
the Abyss. On a 10 up you get a clear
snapshot of a moment in their past or
future and can take a String on them. • On
a 7-9 you can still see the moment but
❍ Exposed
If you learn someone’s secrets by looking
through their eyes, take a String on them.
If you use this information against them,
take another.
❍ Optic Nerve
You can spend a String you have on
someone to automatically succeed at using
the move Your Eyes to look through their
eyes. But they take a String on you.
❍ Dilated
When attempting to Shut Someone Down
you can spend a String you have on them
to add 2 to your roll.
❍ I Can Show You the World
You have the ability to influence and
change what someone sees. Once you have
successfully used Your Eyes roll with Dark

Darkest Self
You gain the Condition blinded and
cannot use your gifts. The only eyes
you have are your own. But you still
have their secrets, their weaknesses.
Expose and exploit them. Reveal every
dark and twisted facet of information
until you’ve ruined them completely.
You escape your Darkest Self and
resolve blinded when someone
exposes a secret of yours.
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Seer move.
❍ Take another Seer move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You are a part of a Seer
Collective.
Conditions
they take a String on you. • On failure, you
see two versions and have no way of
knowing which one is real.
❍ I See You
When you want to Lash Out Physically you
can instead roll with Dark. On a 10 up you
deal 1 Harm and see a brief moment of
weakness from their past. • On a 7-9
choose one:
deal no Harm but see the moment of
weakness,
deal 1 Harm but do not see the moment.
again. On a 10 up you can manipulate the
image they see. (Change the people
present, change someone’s action) they
believe this is what truly happened. • On a
7-9 you can still manipulate the image but
choose one:
you take 3 Harm
you lose all Strings
you trigger your Darkest Self
• On a failure, you trigger your Darkest
Self.
❍ Transparent
If you discover someone’s secret by
looking through their eyes, and choose to
tell them what you’ve discovered about
them instead of using it against them,
mark experience.

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Sex When you have sex with someone, you are able to see through
their eyes and view their last sexual partner. Take a String on that

Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Move person.

Playing The Fable
Curious, out of place, literary and fictional. The Fable’s first life was on the
pages of a book, a short story, or a poem, living the way the author chose for
them. Now that they are free, they must make their own choices. Write their
own story.

The two stat options for The Fable slant toward being vengeful and
mysterious (Volatile 2 & Dark 1) or alluring and puzzling (Hot 2 & Dark 1) .
Either way, the Fable relies on their ability to perplex and surprise people.
And their low Cold stat is a testament to how out of place they feel in their
new reality.

Most of the Fable’s move choices revolve around their need to control their
own story. Narrator lets them rewrite a moment that causes them Harm. And
Read Me forces others to have less of a choice, just as The Fable once did.
Labels and Rewrite History touch on the importance of Conditions to the Fable,
and how the words other people force on others can impact who they are.

Bound finds a way for the Fable to measure how far they’ve come from who
they once were on the page. Ink Spilled can help them attempt to fit into this
world, for a price. And Cover Judgement puts the metaphorical pen in the
Fable’s hands and lets them write someone’s description.

The Fable
You’ve spent your life trapped on the pages of someone else’s favorite story. A famous
literary title, or maybe a lonely teens creative writing project. Reliving the same
moments over and over and over again for their benefit. Only able to make the
decisions that were written for you.

But not anymore. You’re out. You are the author of your own story now.
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Identity
Name: Atticus, Arthur, Frank, Daisy, Eyes: alluring eyes, convincing eyes,
Darcy, Finn, Gwen, Heath, Jo, Juliet knowing eyes, pained eyes, searching
Look: bookish, mysterious, out of
place, spell binding, well read
Your Backstory
Someone has read your story and
liked the character more than you.
Take a String on them.
Someone has made the connection
and suspects where you come from.
They take 2 Strings on you.
Darkest Self
Who were you kidding? You are who
the author says you are. You are
nothing more than the words on a
page. Make no decisions. Follow other
people’s leads. This world is their
story, you’re just a side character. You
escape your Darkest Self when
someone praises a quality you have
that your character version doesn’t.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
eyes
Origin: banned book rebellion,
product of a prophecy, someone’s
worst nightmare, spoken into reality,
wished from the pages
Strings
Harm
Experience
❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Fable move.
❍ Take another Fable move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet your Author (or
Author’s Descendent).
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Fable Moves
❍ Ink Spilled
When attempting to Keep Your Cool you
can automatically succeed by reciting a
Choose three:
passage from your story that speaks to
your courage, bravery or passionate
❍ Narrator
demeanor. But choose one from the list
Once per scene, when you take Harm, roll
below as you succumb to someone else's
Dark to rewrite what happened to you. On
idea of who you are.
a 10 up choose two from the list below.
each main character gives you a
• On a 7-9 choose one:
Condition,
heal 1 Harm,
you lose all your Strings,
take a String on someone you deem
responsible for the Harm, you take 3 Harm.
the Harm is transferred to someone
else. ❍ Rewrite History
You are tired of being labeled by other
❍ Labels people. Once per session you can remove
Every time someone Gazes Into the Abyss all but one Condition. Alter the remaining
about you, give them a Condition. Condition to mean the exact opposite.
❍ Read Me ❍ Covered Judgment
When you attempt to Turn Someone On You’ve been judged before. So why not
and are successful you can spend a String return the favor. When meeting someone
you have on that person to remove one of for the first time, give them a Condition,
their choices. and carry +1 Forward to Shut Them Down.
❍ Broken Binding
When you Lash Out Physically decide if this
is something the “character” version of
you would do in this situation. If it’s not,
mark experience.
Sex
When you have sex with someone you can hear their inner
narration of the encounter and know how they really feel about
it. (The partner should give a 1-2 sentence summary of their
Move feelings about the experience)
Playing The Cold One
Glistening, magical, and powerful. The Cold One has the ability to manipulate
colder weather patterns for their own personal gain. Family is intrinsically
important to the Cold One, blood and found, and they will find themselves
making concessions and choices specifically in the best interest of the people
they consider family.

Both stat choices for the Cold One have a focus on the cold of the weather
you can control, which fuels your ability to manipulate and produce colder
weather. You could be cold and calculating (Cold 2, Dark 1) or cold and
powerful (Cold 2, Volatile 1). Either way, The Cold One is one to fear.
Your moves Let it Go and Frosted Family are your base moves. You are able to
perform cold weather related feats of magic up to a city wide radius at its
most powerful. Being a member of your family has its advantages, to both
you and them.

Frost Bitten and Ice Castle gives you the ability to defend, avenge, and protect
those you care about and hurt, threaten and bind those who you don’t. Melt
With You enhances your icy alluring nature, while Conceal Don’t Feel allows
you to better care for and understand those people you hold closest.

The Cold One

Everyone has a favorite season. A time of year where the weather reflects their souls.
You feel whole in winter. The freezing temperatures, the inches of snow, the glistening
of ice. It all makes you feel at home. It makes you feel safe. And you know how to
manipulate it. Many people long for warmth during the darkest, coldest times of year.
But it doesn’t bother you. Not one bit.

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Identity
Name: Aspen, Blanca, Cole, Christian,
Crystal Ellie, Jack, Kari
Look: bright, icy, pale as snow, royal,
stunning
Cold One Moves
You get Let it Go and Frosted Family and
Eyes: glassy eyes, icy eyes, secret
choose one more:
eyes, stormy eyes
⬤ Let it Go:
Origin: born with powers, gifted
You have the ability to manipulate and
power, science accident, stolen
produce cold weather patterns. When you
power
attempt to use this ability roll with Cold.
On a 10 up it works the way you wanted
in any size you require up to a city wide
radius. • On a 7-9 it works only up to a
❍ Melt With You
When attempting to Turn Someone On you
may roll with Cold because your icy
nature seems alluring to others. If you
succeed and this person is a part of your
“family”, you gain an additional String on
them.
❍ Ice Castle
When attempting to protect someone in
your “family” you may spend 2 Strings to
treat your next roll as if you rolled a 10 up.

Your Backstory
Someone saw you abuse your powers.
They gain 2 Strings on you.
Someone is a member of your
“family”. Give them the proper
Condition and take a String on them.
Strings mile wide radius but the outcome of the
❍ Conceal Don’t Feel
weather was not exactly what you
expected. • On a failure you take 1 Harm as You can Gaze into the Abyss with Cold. If
your powers backfire. you're gazing about a member of your
"family" treat a failure as if you rolled a
⬤ Frosted Family: 7-9.
When you consider someone a member of
your “family”, either chosen or blood, give
them the Condition frosted family. You

Darkest Self Harm have a +1 Forward to helping anyone with

You’ve held it in long enough. It’s
time to let the storm rage on. Use
your powers recklessly and without
limits. Get revenge on your enemies,
punish those who forced you to hide.
While in your Darkest Self, your
powers have deeper consequences.
You escape your Darkest Self when
someone threatens your “family” or
makes you come face to face with the
damage you’ve done.
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Cold One move.
❍ Take another Cold One move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet another Weather-
caster.
Conditions
this Condition. If you remove this
Condition from someone (because you no
longer consider them family) they take 1
Harm as you cause a frozen heart.
❍ Frost Bitten
Roll with Volatile to attack a singular
opponent with your powers. On a 10 up
you cause 2 Harm of frostbite. • On a 7-9
you cause 1 Harm of frostbite on your
opponent but you are unable to control
your diameter and cause yourself 1 Harm
as well. • On a failure you can choose to
either loose all Strings, or trigger your
Darkest Self.

Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone they must name their strongest
emotion at the time of the encounter. They gain the Condition
frozen and feel primarily that emotion until the Condition is
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1 Move resolved.
Playing Banshee
Deadly, determined, dangerous, and desperate. The Banshee has a very
strange relationship with Death. To best play the Banshee you should first
discover what that connection with Death looks like to you. Your
relationship with Death is complicated, dark and a slippery slope.
Banshees have incredible power, and are burdened with the knowledge of
Death. Power that can help others. But sometimes Death asks for favors in
return. Which might not always be worth it.

Your stat lines as a Banshee both highlight your twisted and deathly
nature. But you can choose if you lean more towards violent and troubled
(Volatile 2, Dark 1) or vicious and threatening (Dark 2, Volatile 1).

You start with the base move Scream which is your inherent Banshee
ability to predict and sense the possibility of Death. The moves Death
Sense and Frequencies allow you to fine tune your relationship with Death
in order to receive additional useful information.

Deafened and Sonic Push expand on your more volatile nature and let you
harness your power in threatening situations. To be deafened is to be
hindered. When someone has the Condition deafened they are unable to
use one of their skin moves. If the person does not have skin moves, they
are unable to hear. If the Banshee has the Condition deafened it can only
be cleared by making a bargain with Death. Morbidly Curious makes
romance a beneficial thing and Death and All His Friends gives you more
options in social situations.

The Banshee
Death isn’t exactly your friend. Acquaintance is more like it. You can hear it,
understand it, predict it. Sometimes even speak to it. Or scream at it. Your screams
have always been a way to communicate. To warn.

But knowing when it will arrive comes at a cost. And the price may very well be
something even worse than Death itself.
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Identity
Name: Amalia, Bentley, Conor, Fallon,
Kayla, Marcus, Masie, Mindy, Nala,
Vince
Look: detached, disheveled, fronting,
haunted, worried
Your Backstory
You predicted Someone’s death and
saved them from it. Take a String on
them.
Someone should be dead. But they
aren’t. And you don’t know why. They
gain a String on you.
Darkest Self
Your screams have gone unnoticed
for long enough. If they won’t listen
to your warnings then you shouldn’t
give them any. No one deserves your
help. Let them walk into danger, let
them make horrible mistakes. It’s not
your job to stop them anymore. In
fact, steer them in that direction.
Point them directly down the path
towards Death. Let them save
themselves. You escape your Darkest
Self when someone you didn’t warn
dies, or you predict your own death.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold -1
Eyes: empty eyes, jumpy eyes,
knowing eyes, pleading eyes, wide
eyes
Origin: awoken by a ritual, born
of a banshee, drank the blood of
the dead, inherited gift, recruited
by death
Strings
Harm
Experience
❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Banshee move.
❍ Take another Banshee move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet Death face to face.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Volatile 1 Dark 2
Banshee Moves
You get Scream and choose one more:
√⬤ Scream
When you or an ally are about to
enter a situation, roll Dark to sense
the danger. On a 10 up, you can tell if
someone might end up dead. If so, you
scream and only characters with skins
can hear this. If you or your ally still
chooses to pursue it after hearing the
scream, take +1 Forward. • On a 7-9
you don't know if someone might end
up dead, but you can tell if someone
has died entering a similar situation in
the past. • On a failure, choose to
either take 2 Harm or gain the
Condition deafened.
❍ Death Sense
You can always tell if/when someone
you’ve had a conversation with in the
past dies. Roll Dark, on a 10 up choose
two. • On a 7-9 choose one:
you can tell how they died
you can tell where they died
you can tell what they felt as they
died.
❍ Morbidly Curious
If someone who knows about your
relationship with Death attempts to
Turn You On, mark experience.
Sex When you have sex with someone you can sense the air of death
around them. Instantly know how many people they’ve lost in
Move their lives.
❍Sonic Push
You can push people away with your
screams. Roll Volatile, on a 10 up
choose two from the list below. • On a
7-9 choose one:
do 1 Harm
push them 20 feet in any direction
take a String on them
give them a Condition
❍ Deafened
When confronting someone, roll
Volatile to Scream. 10 up they receive
the Condition deafened and lose one
of their skin moves for the remainder
of that scene. If the individual does
not have skin moves they cannot hear
for the remainder of the scene.
❍ Frequencies
You can hear the dead’s last words.
When you are near a body, roll Dark.
On a 10 up choose two from the list
below. • On a 7-9 choose one:
hear the last words they spoke
hear the last words they heard
hear the last thought they had
❍ Death and All His Friends
When attempting to Shut Someone
Down, roll instead with Volatile and
gain an additional option: give them
the Condition deafened.
Playing the Raven
Nightmarish, nefarious, and nevermore. The Raven has developed a sixth
sense to not only discover but to truly understand someone else’s trauma.
They have the potential to use this talent to help others face their
demons and come to terms with their mistakes, loss and fear, or they can
use what they’ve learned to hit others where it hurts most.

Your stat options for the Raven both favor Dark which is what the Raven
uses to forge their connection to someone’s fears and guilts and how they
help them confront their demons. However it is your choice if your Raven
is more tempting and persuasive (Hot 1, Dark 2) or forceful and impatient
(Volatile 2, Dark 1).

You begin with Quoth and Merely This. Quoth showcases your talent at
finding out about someone’s fears, guilt and grief. Nevermore showcases
your ability to fight without ever lifting a muscle, but using nightmares
against them. Bust of Pallas lets you choose the direction you plan to go
when Lashing Out Physically. Midnight Dreary offers benefits when you
share vulnerable moments with others, but forces you to acknowledge
how vulnerable you are.

Confrontation helps you get people to face their trauma. And Sorrow for
the Lost lets you utilize the information you’ve gathered to forge stronger
connections. As the Raven you ultimately have a choice to make, do you
use these fears, guilt and grief to help them through it? Or to hit them
where it will hurt most? Unmerciful Disaster forces you to make that

The Raven
choice. You can become what you are with Tis a Visitor. And you can use
what you know with Ghastly Grim and Ancient.

You have the gift, or curse, of understanding someone’s worst guilts, their darkest fear,
their deepest grief. They come to you for advice, for acceptance, for the hard truths.
You know what they need to face, you know what they’re hiding from.

You know what they’ve lost. And it’s your job to make them confront it.
Credits Only this and nothing more.

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Identity
Name: Allen, Edgar, Fitz, Isaac, Kohl,
Anabelle, Evangeline, Lenora,
Madeline, Uma
Look: beguiling, nightmarish,
melancholic, welcoming, wistful
Eyes: forgiving eyes, knowing
eyes, puzzled eyes, scanning eyes,
taunting eyes,
Origin: awoken, from a
nightmare, hatched, returned,
sent
Raven Moves ❍ Midnight Dreary
You get Quoth and Merely This and one Every time you sleep in the same bed
more: as another person, mark experience,
but choose 2:
√⬤ Quoth have a nightmare
When you are alone with someone, take 1 Harm
roll with Dark to compel them to tell loose a String
you their fear, guilt, or grief. On a 10
up they tell you truthfully a deep ❍ Confrontation
seated fear, guilt or grief (your choice). When helping someone confront and
• On a 7-9 they can choose whether or face their current fear, guilt or grief,

Your Backstory
You’ve found someone who has the
same fear, guilt or grief as you. They
take 2 Strings on you.
You’ve solidified your station as the
one people can come to for advice
and help. Take a String on everyone.
Darkest Self
You’ve helped others face their own
problems for too long. It’s time you
focus on yourself. Pursue your own
desires, do what makes you feel
happy and powerful, ignore anyone
else’s problems. If it doesn't concern
you, then it’s not worth your time.
You escape your Darkest Self when
you feel genuine guilt over something
you’ve done.
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Raven move.
❍ Take another Raven move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet an Unkindness.
Conditions
add +1 Forward to all rolls to
not to tell you. • On a failure they do
not tell you, and they know you tried accomplish that goal.
to push them.
❍ Sorrow for the Lost
⬤ Merely This You can use your knowledge of
Every time you learn someone’s fear, someone’s pain to truly connect with
guilt or grief, through moves or them. If you do, add 2 to your roll to
otherwise, take a String on them. Turn Them On.
❍ Nevermore ❍ Unmerciful Disaster
When you Lash Out Physically against If you help resolve someone’s
someone you can confront them with Condition you can either both mark
a nightmare to instead affect them experience, or you can use Quoth as if
you’ve rolled a 10 up.
mentally. On a 10 up you trap them in
a nightmare, do 1 Harm and give them
❍ ‘Tis a Visitor
the Condition haunted. If you know
You have the ability to shift into a
their current fear and you used it for
raven. Any Strings or Damage you take
the nightmare, you also gain a String.
in this form are doubled.
• On a 7-9 they catch a glimpse of a
nightmare and gain the Condition
❍ Ghastly Grim and Ancient
haunted. • On a failure, you
The secrets you know matter. Spend a
accidentally show them your own
String you got from learning
nightmare and get a String on you.
someone's fear, guilt or grief to add 2
to any roll against, or for, them.
❍ Bust of Pallas
You may use Dark and Volatile
interchangeably.

Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Sex When you have sex with someone, you can choose to tell them
something you're guilty of. If you do, take a String on them. If

Move
they tell you something their guilty of, they take a String on you.
Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1
Playing The Chimera
Hybrid, hostile, haunted, and hollowed. The Chimera is an unnatural
combination of two skins. Double the monster, double the fun. The
Chimera can be played as a mixture of any two Monsterhearts 2 Skins.

For the Chimera’s stat options, you must choose one of the stat options
from your two chosen skins. Your choice of which skin to lean on could
inform your character's backstory, which skin they favor, and how they
view themselves. So pick carefully!

You start with the base move Two is Better than One which establishes
you as a crossover between the two skins. From there you have the
choice to choose skin moves from your chosen skins, or take moves
from The Chimera skin that will highlight your duality. Speaking of, The
Duality of Monster grants you the ability to merge your Skin’s Sex moves.
Allowing your two sides to exist simultaneously. Double Trouble offers an
advantage in physical altercations, while Porque No Las Dos? forces you
to choose between your two sides for a reward.

Takes Two to Know Two heightens your ability to find others who are
similar to you. Two Many Cooks makes it easier to keep people at arms
length. Twin Peaks gives you limited power over how people see you, for
a price.

The Chimera
A Chimera is a single organism that’s made up of cells from two “individuals''.
Containing two sets of DNA, two separate organisms. All in one body.

You’ve never fit in. You aren’t meant to. You are different. Unique. Even more monstrous
than monsters. It can be pretty lonely being the only one like you.

Credits But twice the issues also means twice the power after all.

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Identity
Name: Annabeth, Carollyn, Carmen,
Delia, Finn, Gwen, Koal, Liam, Nick,
Zeke
Look: confusing, displaced, exotic,
jumpy, loner
Your Backstory
You’ve been watching someone and
have admired their ability to fit in.
Take 2 Strings on them.
You’re different, mysterious and you
stick out like a sore thumb. People
have noticed that. Give everybody 1
String.
Darkest Self
You’re not different. You’re not
unnatural. You’re unique. You’re one
of a kind. And you’re powerful. You
deserve the spotlight. So take it.
Confront every bully, exert your
dominance over everyone. You escape
Darkest Self your when someone
treats you with genuine kindness or
genuine hatred.
Choose a Stat Line from one of your Two Skins. Fill it in below.
Hot _ Cold _
Eyes: accusing eyes, hesitant eyes,
lying eyes, sad eyes, searching
eyes
Origin: absorbed a twin, born of
two skins, created by a scientist,
skin two is a recent addition,
transplant
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Chimera move.
❍ Take another Chimera move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Find another Chimera.
Conditions
Volatile _ Dark _
Chimera Moves
❍ Twin Peaks
When you receive a condition, you
You get Two is Better than One: may alter it to mean the exact
opposite. If you do, you trigger your
√⬤ Two is Better than One Darkest Self.
Immediately gain your two chosen
Skins’ base moves. If a Skin you chose
does not have a base move, choose
one from the available moves.
❍ The Duality of Monster
You are able to use both of your Skin’s
Sex Moves simultaneously.
√❍ Double Trouble
When attempting to Lash Out
Physically against a target for the first
time in a scene, they automatically get
a glimpse of your true nature and you
deal an additional Harm.
❍ Porque No Las Dos?
When Gazing into the Abyss you may
take +1 Forward if you admit out loud
which of your two Skin’s you’re more
ashamed of.
❍ Takes Two to Know Two
You have the ability to know if anyone
has ever switched Skin’s. You can’t tell
what they are, or what they were but
you know they’ve changed.
❍ Two Many Cooks
If someone who successfully rolls to
Turn You On has any Strings, you can
steal one.
Sex When you have sex with someone, you can choose one of your
chosen Skin’s sex moves to use. You can alternate freely between
Move them.
Playing The Magician
Magical, magnetic, masterful, and machiavellian. The Magician is a powerful
being with a flare for the dramatic. What’s the point of doing something
show worthy without any witnesses? The Magician strives to entertain,
perplex and tantalize their audience. When playing the Magician make every
choice a powerful one, make every move a noticeable one, make sure
everyone knows your name.

Your stat options for The Magician revolve around their showmanship and
talent. You can choose which they favor more. Mesmerizing and skilled (Hot
2, Dark 1) or mysterious and masterful (Volatile 1, Dark 2).

You begin with the move Illusionist. This is the basis of your power, your
ability to make people see what you want them to. Both Now You See Me and
And For My Next Trick play on your skill of knowing things about other people,
and being able to discern what’s real and what’s not. While the move Now
You Don’t plays on your ability to disappear in plain sight.

Sawed in Half lets you personalize how you can Lash Out Physically with great
reward and great consequence. Fickle Nickel demonstrates your skill in close
up magic and allows you to make things vanish. You can rival even the best
mentalist with your move I’m Thinking of a Phrase while Pick a Card rewards
you for your mastery of the craft.

The Magician
Some call it a trick, some call it magic, you call it useful. You’re a performer, a
storyteller, an enchanter. You take pleasure in inspiring wonder and confusion
in your audience. They never know what to expect from you, you prefer it that
way. You’re skilled in the art of misdirection, distraction, and lies. And they
always buy it, hook line and sinker.
Credits
After all, you know how to put on one hell of a show.

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Identity
Name: Ariana, Criss, David, Derren,
Dorothy, Fay, Judy, Katherine, Lance,
Penn
Look: enchanting, flamboyant,
marketable, mysterious, unassuming
Your Backstory
You’ve tricked someone into believing
what you wanted them to. Take 2
Strings on them.
You’re the center of attention, the
greatest showman, and they all watch
you, all the time. Everyone takes 1
String on you.
Darkest Self
You’re done playing it safe, you’re
done with silly little party tricks. It’s
time to go big or go home. Push your
limits, test your powers, and force
people to take notice. Your powers
are stronger but more unpredictable
when in your Darkest Self. You escape
your Darkest Self when your tricks
harm a person you care for.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: beckoning eyes, fiery eyes,
mischievous eyes, safeguarded
eyes, sparkling eyes
Origin: born into the craft, magic
shop relic, magical mentee,
powers arrived in a time of need,
youtube tutorials
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Magician move.
❍ Take another Magician move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You join a Secret Society of
Magic.
Conditions
Volatile 1 Dark 2
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Magician Moves
You get Illusionist, and choose one more:
⬤ Illusionist
You have the ability to create powerful
illusions and make people see what you
want them to see. Roll Dark, on a 10 up
your illusion is perfect to the untrained
eye. • On a 7-9 your illusion works but
choose 1 from below:
they can tell it’s a lie
your materials malfunction, someone
nearby takes Harm
you create the wrong illusion
❍ Now You See Me
You are automatically aware of anyone
who attempts to Gaze into the Abyss about
you. To try and find out where they are,
roll Dark. On a 10 up you can pinpoint
their location. • On a 7-9 you get two
locations with no way to discern which is
accurate.
√❍ Now You Don’t
When in a dangerous or awkward
situation, roll Volatile to disappear. On a 10
up you disappear magnificently and
magically, and nobody in the area can
track you. • On a 7-9 you disappear, but
treat this as if you’ve rolled a mixed
success on Run Away and choose from that
list.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, you put on a great show, really
wowing your audience. Choose one of their moves, they have a
Move
permanent +1 Forward to using that move until you entertain a
new sexual audience.
❍ And For My Next Trick....
Always carry +1 Forward against being
fooled, tricked or lied to.
❍ Sawed in Half
Use your powers to Lash Out Physically.
Choose your method:
Misdirect (Dark) or Maim (Volatile).
Misdirect: On a 10 up it works, distracting
them perfectly. • On a 7-9 you distract
your target as well as one other person
the MC chooses.
Maim: On a 10 up it works perfectly, you
deal your target 2 Harm. • On a 7-9 you
still deal 2 Harm, but you Harm another
person the MC chooses as well.
❍ Fickle Nickel
You can make small objects vanish. Roll
Dark. On a 10 up it vanishes without a
trace and only you know it’s location. • On
a 7-9 choose 1 from below:
the item vanishes, and is replaced with
something else.
the item vanishes and you have no idea
where it went.
the item vanishes, to your other hand.
❍ I’m Thinking of a Phrase
You have the ability to read someone’s
thoughts. Spend a String on someone to
immediately learn their most recent
thought.
❍ Pick a Card
When you effectively and unquestionably
fool someone, mark experience.
Playing Manticore
Wicked, wayward, wretched, and worrisome. The Manticore is a creature of
chaos. They enjoy watching it, creating it, and enforcing it. The Manticore
isn’t evil, but does find a wicked satisfaction in evil actions. Except when
you’re the target of that destruction. It is best to find the balance between
wanting chaos for others and being afraid of it.

Your stat options for the Manticore both favor Volatile, seeing as you are a
brash and powerful creature. You can decide if your Manticore favors it’s
ancient powers of corruption (Dark 2, Volatile 1) or if your Manticore is more
adept at social games of manipulation and isolation (Volatile 2, Cold 1).

You begin with Man-Eater. This move highlights the importance of the
connection to human flesh and rewards you for satisfying your cravings.
Vicious Strike and Razor Rows showcase your unique physical attributes and
allow you to both defend and attack with your particularly dangerous
physiology. You can always find a place to hide with Home Sweet Lair.

Draconic Heights gives you great reward with some risk. And See More Evil
plays into your personal preference of witnessing chaos and destruction. Skin
of the Manticore highlights your tough skin and solidifies your station as
socially untouchable. Like Calls to Like allows you glimpses into others darkest
moments while threatening to share your own moments of darkness.

The Manticore’s Darkest Self explores the ramifications and darkness that can
surround you when you take the time to really think about the things you’ve

The Manticore
done. And the Sex Move plays on the Manticores ideas about what it means
to be good.

You’re not evil. But that doesn’t mean that the screams of pain, the wake of
destruction, and the panic surrounding chaos doesn’t fill you with wicked glee. You love
to watch things break. You delight in the pain of others.

Your alliances always align with those who cause the most damage, wreak the most
havoc, bring the most pain.
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Identity
Name: Alias, Benedict, Carmen,
Francesca, Klaus, Liam, Louisa, Nesta,
Quinten, Vivica
Look: chilling, intimidating,
mischievous, playful, secretive
Your Backstory
You’ve been intimate with someone
and let your guard down, count them
as your first body for Man-Eater and
give them a String on you.
You know of a wicked and monstrous
act this person committed. Take 2
Strings on them.
Darkest Self
You’ve done so many horrible things in
your life. You’ve destroyed everyone
and everything you’ve ever cared about.
You’ve delighted in others' failures, and
found joy in their downfalls. But you’re
the real failure. You don’t deserve
anything good in life. You don’t deserve
happiness, you’d only destroy it. Let
them walk all over you. Let yourself be
miserable. You deserve it. You escape
your Darkest Self when someone you’ve
hurt in the past forgives you or
someone makes you feel worthy.
Eyes: carless eyes, beckoning eyes,
burning eyes, dark eyes, excited
eyes
Origin: experiment gone wrong,
forged in hell, from birth, made
to create balance
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Manticore move.
❍ Take another Manticore move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet a Harbinger of
Chaos.
Conditions
Manticore Moves
You get Man Eater, and choose two more:
⬤ Man-Eater
You crave a connection with human flesh.
Keep track of all your sexual partners (this
list stacks and your body count is reset
when you enter your Darkest Self).
5-9: You can Turn Someone On with Volatile.
10-14: Carry +1 Forward to Lash Out
Physically the first time in a scene.
15-19: Anyone who attempts to Gaze Into
The Abyss about you can only do so on a
full success.
20+: You can only take a fourth Harm from
a mental weapon. Any other form will not
cause a fourth Harm.
❍ Vicious Strike
When you Lash Out Physically you can do so
with long and sharp nails. On a success you
also give your target the Condition
draining. They immediately lose access to
one of their moves. And they lose access to
an additional move for everyday they do
not resolve the Condition. Moves return
when the Condition is resolved.
√❍ Draconic Heights
You can sprout dragon-like wings and fly.
Your wings can deal an additional Harm if
used to Lash Out Physically. However, due to
limited mobility your Volatile stat is
reduced to 0 while in this form.
❍ Skin of the Manticore
Once per game you can resolve any
Condition you receive immediately.
❍ See More Evil
You are able to see perfectly in the dark. If
you witness someone do something under
the cover of night, gain a String on them.
❍ Like Calls to Like
When you’re near someone, roll Dark.
On a 10 up you catch a glimpse of a truly
selfish, destructive or evil act someone has
committed. • On 7-9 you still see an act
they’ve committed, but they catch a
glimpse of something you’ve done as well.
• On a failure you are confronted with a
vision of the worst act you committed, and
take 1 Harm.
❍ Home Sweet Lair
You have a gift for finding secret
hideaways. Wherever you are, roll Cold to
find a lair. On a 10 up you are able to find a
lair and you are completely alone and
untraceable. • On 7-9 You find a lair, but
you are not alone.
❍ Razor Rows
You can reveal 2 rows of razor sharp teeth.
Roll Volatile to bite your target. On a 10 up
Your bite does 2 Harm and your target is
temporarily paralyzed in their spot. • On
7-9 your bite does 1 Harm. • On a failure
choose one:
gain the Condition draining
trigger your Darkest Self
❍ Seeing Red
You are foreboding and intimidating. You
can Gaze into the Abyss with Volatile.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 Sex When you have sex with someone, ask them if they think you’re a
good person. If they say yes, you mark experience. If they say no,

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Move they mark experience.

Playing Sphinx
Jaded, jilted, judicious, and just. The Sphinx has one job. Protect those who
deserve to be protected. And destroy those who don’t. And only The Sphinx
can determine which category someone falls under. Much like the Sphinx’s
from Greek and Egyptian mythology, this Sphinx plays guardian and
executioner.

Your stat options for the Sphinx both favor Dark, which is where your powers
of judgment originate from. But you get to decide if you protect and destroy
in a more charming way (Hot 2, Dark 1), or physical way (Dark 2, Volatile 1).

You begin with Riddle of the Sphinx. This is your test. This is how you
determine someone’s worth. Guard the Tomb and My Pharaoh allow you to
protect those who are guarded. While The Fall of Thebes and The Muses’ Song
help you destroy those who are marked.

Hesiod’s Delight gives you the chance to level the social playing field. While
Pride of Chios rewards you for a job well done. Luxor Influence makes it so that
you can reap the benefits of all the hard work you put in.

The Sphinx’s relatively simple Sex Move allows for you to truly see how the
people with these Conditions can affect you. And the Darkest Self forces you
to ignore your tried and true test.

The Sphinx
It’s always the same. Protecting those who earn it. Punishing those who don’t.

Yours is not an easy job. Testing others to see if they are worthy. Someone has to do it,
and you are certainly good at it. You can always tell if someone deserves your help, or if
it’s your duty to destroy them.

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Identity
Name: Ajax, Alexander, Ares,
Cassandra, Daphne, Hector, Iris, Jason, eyes, longing eyes, scanning eyes,
Penelope, Phoebe
Look: feline, guarded, looming,
slouched, statuesque
Your Backstory
Someone used to be marked but
found a way to redeem themselves.
Give them 2 Strings.
You admire someone’s ability to
protect or destroy others. Take a
String on them.
Eyes: fearsome eyes, judgmental
spiteful eyes
Origin: from the nile, sands of
time, self appointed, sent by the
gods, uncovered in the rubble
Strings
Sphinx Moves
You get Riddle of the Sphinx, and choose two
more:
⬤ Riddle of the Sphinx
Ask someone a question, give them a
riddle, or offer a hypothetical situation.
You are looking for one specific answer.
If they get the answer you’re looking for,
give them the Condition guarded. You are
always able to locate someone who has
this Condition. If they do not answer
correctly, give them the Condition
marked. It is your goal to socially,
emotionally and physically destroy this
person. If these Conditions are resolved by
any means, you must reuse this move in
order to give them another Condition.
❍ Pride of Chios
❍ Looming Presence
You can roll Volatile to Shut Someone Down
if they have the marked Condition.
❍ The Fall of Thebes
You can attempt to ruin someone socially.
Roll Dark when speaking about someone
with the Condition marked. On a 10 up
choose 2 from below. • On a 7-9 choose 1.
the person you are speaking to thinks
poorly of the person who is marked and
they give them a Condition.
the marked person can only Turn On or
Shut Down the person you’re speaking to
with a full success, anything lower is a
failure (this lasts as long as they have
the Condition marked).
the marked person doesn’t know you
were the one behind this.
❍ The Muses’ Song

Darkest Self
You’ve been burdened with this duty
for too long, for what feels like
centuries. And you’re tired of it.
Everyone with the Condition marked
and guarded switch. Protect those
who deserve to be destroyed. And
destroy those who deserve your
protection. You escape your Darkest
Self, and the Conditions revert, when
someone you’re seeking to destroy,
protects you or someone you try to
protect, attempts to destroy you.
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Sphinx move.
❍ Take another Sphinx move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You meet a Muse.
Conditions
When you successfully protect someone
with the Condition guarded, mark
experience.
❍ Guard the Tomb
When in the presence of someone with
the Condition guarded they may choose to
use their own, or your stat line for any roll
they make.
❍ Luxor Influence
When someone has 3 or more Conditions
that they’ve garnered due to your
influence, you can Lash Out Physically as if
you rolled a 10 up.
You can spend a String you have on
someone with the Condition marked to
automatically succeed at using The Fall of
Thebes.
❍ Hesiod’s Delight
Whenever someone gains a String on you.
Roll Hot. On a 10 up You also gain a String
on them. • On 7-9 You gain a String on
them, but they get an additional String on
you.
❍ My Pharaoh
Once per game you can remove one
Condition from everyone with the guarded
Condition.

Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone who has the Condition
guarded, give them a String. If they have the Condition marked,
take a String on them. If they don’t have either Condition. Give
Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark 2 Move them 2 Strings on you.
Playing The Dryad
Vibrant, vivacious, vengeful, and vicious. The Dryad has an intimate and deep
connection to the world around them. The ground beneath their feet, the air
blowing through their hair, and all the living breathing gifts from the Earth in
between.

The stat options for the Dryad favor their connection to the earth and their
inhuman beauty and allure. You decide if they are breathtaking and
connected (Hot 2, Dark 1) or formidable and striking (Dark 2, Hot 1).

You begin with Earthly Anchor and Planted which connects you deeply to the
earth and allows you to wield that connection. Your life is tied to nature and
because of that intimate connection your soul can be reborn as long as you
have a remaining Anchor. With Slice of Life you can use the essence of life
within the Earth to heal others. Hidden allows you to become the very thing
that gave you life.

Anchorless and Save The Trees highlight the deep connection you have with
your Anchors and help you protect that connection and recover in the case
that that connection is lost. Roots lets you utilize your relationship with plant
life and Tree Bark gives you a physical manifestation of the power of the trees.
Natural Beauty shows that your beauty can assist you socially.

Your Darkest Self plays on the idea of nature vs. nurture and forces you to
ignore the nurture of your human life and rely heavily on the power that
comes from your connection to the earth and nothing else. Your Sex Move

The Dryad
gives you the ability to enchant others into protecting you.

You are nature, and nature is you. You can uncover the secrets that hide within the
earth as if they were secrets of your own. Much like nature, you can be calm and
serene, or vicious and vengeful. You have the power of the very ground you stand
on in the palm of your hands. Your roots run deep, your power grows tall.

Credits
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Identity
Name: Aurora, Dahlia, Ivy, Kai, Oliver,
Orion, Rahul, Vale, Verna, Willow
Look: breathtaking, chic, grounded,
hippie, lumbering, wallflower
Your Backstory
Somebody knows the location and
significance of your Earthly Anchor.
They take 2 Strings on you.
You’ve used your connection to earth
to help someone in a time of need.
Take a String on them.
Darkest Self
You’ve tried to fit in with the
humans. You’ve abided by their man
made laws. But humans don’t know
what’s best. They don’t understand
that the power of nature cannot and
should not be contained. Ignore their
rules, show them how powerful
nature can be. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone you care
about threatens your Earthly Anchor
or one of your Anchors is destroyed.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: enchanting eyes, glittering
eyes, penetrating eyes, seductive
eyes, soulful eyes
Origin: chosen by nature, fused to
nature by a spell, personified soul
of a tree, reborn from the earth
Strings
Harm
Experience
❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Dryad move.
❍ Take another Dryad move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You’re part of a Pack of
Nymphs.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Dryad Moves
You get Earthly Anchor and Planted and choose
one more:
⬤ Earthly Anchor
You have an Earthly Anchor, a tree, that acts
as your connection to the natural world and
your abilities. When you reach your fourth
Harm, instead of Skirting Death, you die and
your body is absorbed into the earth where
you lie, and a tree grows in its place and
becomes another Earthly Anchor. You are
reborn from your Earthly Anchor a few hours
later. When you have been reborn 3 times you
automatically trigger your Darkest Self. Your
Anchors can be destroyed however and you
can be killed if all of your Anchors are
destroyed.
⬤ Planted
You have the ability to manipulate plants. Roll
Dark. With a success you are able to grow or
manipulate plants around you, additionally on
a 10 up, choose two from below. • On a 7-9,
choose one:
cause 1 Harm
give a Condition
temporarily restrain a target
• On a failure the plants resist, trigger your
Darkest Self.
❍Slice of Life
You can connect to the very essence of life
within the earth and gift someone a small
piece of it. When attempting to heal Harm,
roll Dark. On a 10 up, you can Heal someone
up to 3 Harm. • On 7, heal 1 Harm and give
them a Condition.
Sex When you have sex with someone they are bound to your Earthly
Anchor. They feel a draw to protect it, and you. This lasts until
Move either of you have sex with someone else.
√❍ Anchorless
If one of your Earthly Anchors is destroyed,
mark experience.
❍ Tree Bark
Your skin is as tough as the trees you are
connected to. You can sacrifice one of your
Earthly Anchors to negate any Harm that
would have been the fourth, for yourself or an
ally.
❍ Natural Beauty
You’re mesmerizing. When you roll to Turn
Someone On successfully, you can also give
them a Condition.
❍ Hidden
You can hide in plain sight by transforming
into a beautiful tree. Roll Hot. On a success
you are able to transform convincingly. On a
10 up, choose two from below. • On a 7-9,
choose one:
you can still hear everything around you
you can still speak
you heal 1 Harm by connecting to nature.
• On a failure choose one:
take 3 Harm
trigger your Darkest Self
❍ Save the Trees
You can tell when one of your Earthly
Anchors is threatened. You can sacrifice and
mark to your third Harm to appear at your
threatened Anchor.
❍ Roots
You can ask the nature around you questions.
Roll Dark. On a 10 up, choose two questions
from below. • On a 7-9, choose one:
who has been here recently?
what did you see here recently?
what did you hear here recently?
Playing Nightmare
Daunting, dangerous, devious, and deadly. The Nightmare is the
monster under the bed, the shadow in the closet, the sound in the
hallway. They thrive on other people’s Fear, and when they can’t get
enough, they make their own.

The stat options for the Nightmare both highlight their ability to force
Fear, but you get to decide if they are vicious and scary (Volatile 2,
Dark 1) or terrifying and detached (Dark 2, Cold 1)

You begin with Dream Hopper and FEAR, both of which showcase your
mastery of Fear. You are able to travel into dreams and affect them in
frightening ways, but your powers don’t only exist in the confines of
nightmares. You aim to foster fear in everyone, but those who in your
mind “deserve it” you have a special ability to affect them in particular
with You Did What Now? You can use the Shadows around you with In
the Shadows and Consumed in Darkness.

Throwing Shade allows you to keep your detached personality and

carefully cultivated coldness intact socially while Naked and Afraid and
Cold Hearted gives you an advantage if some people look past, or
embrace your demeanor. And you can grow stronger and more secure
the more Fear that surrounds you with Frightfully Tasty.

Your Darkest Self forces you to forget any semblance of humanity and

The Nightmare
become the monster that so many believe you are. Your Sex Move
gives you a small reprieve from the constant fear plaguing your mind.

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Children are scared of you, adults wield you, everyone underestimates you.
Everyone is afraid of being afraid. Except you. You thrive on Fear, you feed on it.
You create it. Crafting someone's perfect nightmare is a delicate process, you
have to understand them in order to destroy them and you know exactly how
to do it.
In every closet, under every bed, you’ll be there. You’ll always be there.

Identity
Name: Blair, Carrie, Cole, Damien,
Isaac, Laurie, Lyn, Niles, Salem, Tomas
Look: pale, scarred, shadowed, sunken
cheeks, tattooed
Your Backstory
You’ve noticed that darkness
surrounds someone else, the way it
surrounds you. Take a String on them.
Someone has seen you in their
dreams. They take a String on you.
Darkest Self
You’ve let other emotions take the
wheel too often, let humanity cloud
your true goal. But no more. There
can be only fear now. Terrify them,
make them cower, make them
scream. Darken their dreams, ruin
their happiness, let fear rule. No one
is safe. You escape your Darkest Self
when you are genuinely frightened of
something.
Eyes: blackened eyes, drilling eyes,
magnetic eyes, teasing eyes, veiled
eyes
Origin: agent of fear, bullied and
sick of it, cleaved from a dream,
local boogeyman, victim turned
villain
Strings
Harm
Experience
❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Nightmare move.
❍ Take another Nightmare move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You can hear the Whispers of
the Shadows.
Conditions
Nightmare Moves
You get Dream Hopper and FEAR and choose
one more:
⬤ Dream Hopper
Whenever someone you have met before is
sleeping you can enter their dreams. In order
to interact with their dreams, roll Dark. On a
10 up, choose 2 from below. • On a 7-9,
choose one:
give them the Condition frightened of
________,
deal I Harm,
manipulate the dream
• On a failure, you are kicked from their
subconscious and take 1 Harm, and they
remember you were in their dream.
⬤ FEAR
Show them what there is to be afraid of. In
order to frighten someone, roll Dark. On a 10
up, give them the Condition frightened of
_________ and choose something to fill in the
blank. • On a 7-9 they get the Condition
frightened of The Nightmare. And they are
afraid of you.
❍You Did What Now?
You want to punish people who have
committed hateful acts towards you. You
carry +1 Forward to using any of your moves
against someone who has dealt you Harm or
given you a Condition in the past.
√❍ Naked and Afraid
If someone you’ve dealt Harm or given a
Condition to in a dream rolls to Turn You On,
mark experience.
√❍ Throwing Shade
Most people find your cold demeanor
intimidating, and you know how to wield it
to great effect . When you roll to Shut
Someone Down, a 7-9 counts as a full success.
√❍ Cold Hearted
You’re detached and stone-hearted, but that
calls to some people. You can roll to Turn
Someone On with Cold.
√❍ Frightfully Tasty
When someone in your presence is
unquestionably terrified, heal 2 Harm by
feeding off their fear.
❍ In the Shadows
Roll Volatile to slink into the Shadows. On a
10 up, you disappear completely but can still
listen to the scene. • On a 7-9 you are
transported someplace else by the Shadows.
√❍ Consumed in Darkness
You can use your connection to the Shadows
to your advantage. Roll Volatile to attack
someone with the Shadows. On a 10 up
choose 2 from below. • On a 7-9, choose one:
deal 1 Harm
restrain a target
give a Condition
they don’t know you wielded the
Shadow
• On a failure, choose one:
take 1 Harm
trigger your Darkest Self

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex When you have sex with someone you catch a glimpse of
something that always calms their fears.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move
Playing The Mirror
Lonely, lost, and lying. The Mirror believes the only way they can fit in is by
adjusting who they are to fit the personality of the people surrounding them.
They very rarely let anyone see who they are on the inside, because they
aren’t quite sure who that even is anymore. The best way to play the Mirror
is to decide who they are at their base level… and discover all the ways they
choose to conceal that person. The Mirror strives to learn everyone’s secrets,
and to be everyone's best friend.

The Mirror always has a Dark of 2, due to their uncanny ability to read
people. But The Mirror can be insightful and social (Dark 2, Hot1) or insightful
and reserved (Dark 2, Cold 1). Either way, The Mirror’s Volatile stat is low
because they believe the best way to get what you want is not to be
aggressive, but to be clever.

You start with base moved Reflection and Shattered. Reflection helps you fit
into social circles, while Shattered can expose you for the fraud you are. While
not a Volatile creature, The Mirror is still useful in fights with their moves
Echo and Made of Glass. Each giving the Mirror a way to assist and survive in
aggressive situations.

The move Repeat After Me gives the Mirror a practical use of their insightful
manner by recalling past dialogue and events. While Counterfeit helps you
craft a perfect identity that can be alluring to anybody at any time. The
upside of being everyone’s person, means you can learn everyone’s secrets.
This is especially useful with Look Right Through.

The Mirror
You’ve found the best way to survive is by showing people what they want to see, and
by telling them what they want to hear. You’ve done such a good job of becoming what
everyone else needed that you’re not sure who you are anymore.

And that’s ok. Because why would you be yourself, when being everyone else is so much
easier.
Credits
This is a fan Skin for Monsterhearts 2, designed by Nicole Tuttle (@NicoleVoice)
Check out the game at buriedwithoutceremony.com

Identity
Name: Ava, Elle, Eve, Hannah, JJ,
Mallam, Nolon, Otto, Silis
Look: antiquated, dingy, non-specific,
pale, shifty
Your Backstory
You’ve successfully used your Mirror
tricks to be with someone intimately,
gain a String on them.
Someone saw right through your
ruse, they know your game. They gain
1 String on you.
Darkest Self
You’ve lost all sense of self and
identity. Become the people you
admire. Steal their perfect lives, and
take it all for yourself. No matter
what you have to do, and how you
have to do it. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone reminds
you who you are.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold 1
Eyes: curious eyes, gleaming eyes,
knowing eyes, reflective eyes,
shifting eyes
Origin: foster kid, gifted,
professionally trained, reissued
that way, youngest of a large
family
Strings
Harm
Experience
❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Mirror move.
❍ Take another Mirror move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ You’re recruited by a
Government Organization.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Mirror Moves
You get Reflection and Shattered and choose
one more:
⬤ Reflection
You’ve mastered the art of showing and
telling someone what they want to see
and hear. When attempting to fool
someone by becoming a perfect fit for
them, roll with Dark. On a 10 up they
believe you entirely and accept you into
their circle.
• On a 7-9 they accept you but choose one:
you lose a String at random,
you take 1 Harm.
⬤ Shattered
When you reach 3 Harm you gain the
Condition shattered. You feel imperfect,
like everyone knows you’re a fraud. Your
Dark stat lowers by 1 while you have this
Condition. You can only remove this
Condition when you have healed all Harm.
❍ Echo
When you Lash Out Physically you can roll
with Dark instead to use your assailants
moves against them. On a 10 up you
mirror their last Harm dealing move on
them, dealing the same amount of Harm.
• On a 7-9 You can mirror the move, but
MC chooses how bad the Harm is. • On a
failure, you trigger your Darkest Self.
Sex You always absorb and utilize the sex move of your previous
partner. If your previous partner did not have a sex move, you use
Move the last partner’s who did.
❍ Made of Glass
If you take any Harm you can choose to
roll with Dark to reflect it onto someone
else. On a 10 up you choose who the Harm
reflects to and they take the Harm instead.
• On a 7-9 the MC chooses who takes the
Harm.
❍ Repeat After Me
You can remember and repeat back entire
scenes of dialogue and actions. Roll to
Keep Your Cool. On a 10 up you remember
and can recite the entire scene back
verbatim and mark an experience. • On a
7-9 you remember the general idea, but
cannot recall specifics. • On a failure, you
remember false information but claim it
to be true.
❍ Counterfeit
When trying to Turn Someone On while not
being yourself, roll with Dark. On a 10 up
you succeed. • On a 7-9 choose one from
below:
they get a String on you,
gain the Condition shattered (If you do
not currently have Harm you cannot
resolve this Condition until the next
time you heal).
❍ Look Right Through
You’ve gotten very skilled at
understanding people's innermost fears,
wants and desires. When someone
confesses a fear, want or desire to you.
Gain a Sting on them. If you use that fear,
want or desire against them, mark
experience.
 The Forgotten Skins
A collection of skins for monsterhearts 2nd edition
Rebalances & Designs by Nicholas Francia

Foreword
“The Forgotten Skins” are a collection of Topher Gerkey’s original Skin for the Skinless supplement written for Monsterhearts 1st
Edition and a few fan favorites that did not recieve updates to 2nd edition. I am not nor do I claim to be the original designer of
these skills. Every skin has gone through some form of conversion or rebalance, through several hours and sessions of playtesting.
“The Forgotten Skins” is a love letter to these skins, and a hope that these skins will help add variety to your next session.
Special thanks to Avery Alder and Jackson Tegu who inspired me to reupdate these skins and Topher Gerkey for creating the
original Skin for the Skinless for which inspired this project. Some skins have been simply rebalanced and look identitical to their
original skins, some skins have new moves, and some skins have their base mechanics completely rewritten. Please enjoy and
remember that this is a free supplement. Please redistribute to your friends and players alike, but I ask that you do so while
paying credit to myself and the original creators. I hope you enjoy “The Forgotten Skins”!

While never required, if you would like to support me you can do so at https://ko-fi.com/noblemannick . I greatly appreciate any
support you give. Thank you all.
Playing the Beast
Repressed and afraid of intimacy. The Beast is the one who bottles up their
passions and whose emotions are so locked away that when they do finally
let them out, they explode with a horrible, uncontrollable intensity. The
Beast’s passion transform them into a beast with killer instincts. However
the Beast keeps a connection to others even ion this twisted and malicious
state. They’ll go out of their way to hunt and attack that teacher who
humiliated them, the boy who they had a crush on, or that person who
got in their way. When they finally do return to normal, the Beast may be
horried but they may also secretly have enjoyed giving into their more base
instinct.

Your two stat choices when using the Beast bring forth two distinct ways.
One whose feral nature desperatley seeks to make a normal life and risks
letting the Beast loose (Hot 2, Cold 1), or someone who is mysterious and
reserved and believes that shutting everyone out is the only way to keep
the Beast on lock (Cold 2, Hot 1). The Beast can be an outcast afraid or their
own strength, or a social butterfly whose a ticking time bomb. When the
Beast finally gets loose, there will be hell to pay.

Your Moves will shape the triggers and decide how easy it will be for you
to go Feral, but also the abilities you gain while Feral. Taking Tooth & Claw
turns you into a literal monster and makes you to more akin to hunt those
who have done you wrong. While taking Cat’s Eye increases your ability to
give you an edge over people mentally. If you take the advancement that
gives you a gang, you will discover a group of other Beasts who also suffer
from your condition.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Art created by Noeland.
The Beast
They were called frigid. A prude. An ice queen. Their friends always thought they
were just too uptight, and that they’d be fine if they just loosen up a little. Have
some fun. But they know the truth. When they let go - when they lose control,
even for a moment - they can feel themselves starting to change. The terrible
animal in them is always roaring at the ones they love, always trying to claw its
way out. And when it gets out, people get hurt. And the worst part? Sometimes
they kind of like it.
The Beast knows it’s nature, it’s being, that it’s dangerous, that it needs to kept
away forever. But maybe, just maybe it’s time to let it out.

Identity
Names: Blake, Christina, Etienne,
Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja,
Paul, Simone, Tobias
Look: Pristine, rigid, icy hot,
sculpted, exotic
Your Backstory
Two of the others have asked you
out in the past, but you turned
them down. Take a string on each
of them.
You try not to have strong feelings
about anyone. No one else can
start with more than one string on
you.
Darkest Self
You are an animal. No trace of
your human body or mind remains,
only your most primal emotions -
lust, fear, anger, jealousy, hatred.
You are drawn to anyone you have
such intense feelings for, but your
only means of interacting with
them is to savagely attack them. If
you can’t fnd someone you know,
any target will do. You cannot
escape your Darkest Self until you
take a life.
Hot 2 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Eyes: Intimidating eyes, glacial
eyes, demure eyes, conflicted eyes
Origin: Hexed, drank from a
shapeshifter’s pawprint, cursed
bloodline, deep hypnosis
experiment
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Beast move.
• Take another Beast move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Bloodline of Beasts.
Conditions
Beast Moves
You get Caged Heat, and choose two
more:
• The Caged Heat
Whenever you are turned on, your
inner beast begins to assert itself.
You gain the condition Feral, and
for as long as you have that
condition you may use Hot instead
of Volatile to Lash Out Physically.
You can attempt to Keep Your Cool
in order to remove this condition.
Additionally, while Feral choose
two:
+You mostly retain your human
shape.
+You mostly retain your human
intelligence and personality.
+You mostly retain self-control
over your violent and malicious
impulses
o You Wouldn’t Like Me
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense jealousy, anger, or
hatred in addition to by being
turned on.
o Scaredy Cat
Your Caged Heat move is triggered
by intense fear, shame, or sorrow
in addition to by being turned on.
Sex
Immediately after you have sex with someone, you become
your Darkest Self and gain the condition Feral. That person
Move gains +1 forward when attempting to stop you from your
rampage.
o Beauty & The...
You can spend a string on some-
one to simultaneously turn them
on and shut them down. Roll once
and apply all the results; you may
choose whether to use Hot or Cold
for this roll. On a miss, gain the
condition Feral.
o Tooth & Claw
If you are Feral and have lost your
human shape, add 1 to your roll
when you Shut Someone Down by
frightening them or when you Lash
Out Physically.
o Fight or Flight
If you are Feral and have lost your
human intelligence, when you Lash
Out Physically and roll 10 up you
can pick two options. Roll Cold
instead of Volatile to Run Away.
o Predator & Prey
If you are Feral and have lost your
impulse control, take a string on
anyone at whom you Lash Out
Physically and inflict harm.
o Cat Eyes
When you look into someone’s eyes
and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up
add this option: You know their
deepest fear or secret lust, and add
1 to your roll when using that
information to Shut Them Down or
Turn Them On.
Playing the Believer
Certain, dedicated, paranoid, out of touch, and a bit unhinged. The Believer
is all about following hunches, taking risks, and somethings being
completely wrong. They pursue the special things in the world in the hopes
that they’ll rub off and make them special as well. Their Obsession drives
them in all aspects of their life. The plot implication of their Obsession
aren’t limited only to them. They are not special because of their Obsession,
they’re reaching for something that’s more interesting than the rest of their
life.

The two stat choices of the Believers are similiar but interchanging Hot and
Cold. Your connection to the supernatural is ever present, do you look at
society with ever hopeful eyes hoping to gain potential allies and
acceptance of your theories (Dark 2 & Hot 1)? Perhaps however you scorn
society for how they denied you and called you crazy throughout your
pursuit of knowledge (Dark 2 & Cold 1)? Whether your intention to protect
society or just for your own personal gain is up to you, and your
motivations behind your Obsession should drive your character as it is as
important as your Obsession itself.

Taking moves such as You Gotta Believe Me, and I Know In My Heart will
allow you to stand strong and fight back against most of the people who
would deny your research as fantasy. Not only does this allow you refute
their claims, it may aid as an important tool in recruiting them to your side.
Trust No One and Precaution serve as means to support breaking the rules
and going deep in the danger when it comes to pursuing your Obsession.

Your Darkest Self represents the dark ends that you’ll go to in order to
prove or find what your looking for. You no longer care about the collateral
or how many friends you need to bury before you get what you want. You
built a house of cards that is bound to come down and when it does, it
comes down hard.
The Believer
It all makes sense now. The hidden messages, the secret symbol, all the details
just outside a normal person’s perception that lie just beneath the surface. It
means something, it all has to mean something. You know you’re not crazy, and
once you get the proof you need everyone else will know it too. This is the first
small step in unraveling the whole fucked up mystery.

But remember... knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Learned Knave and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo by Behind Blue Skies

Identity
Names: Sanford, Dana, Jose,
Mabel, Finn, Chaos, Ruth, Lucas,
Alex, Walker, Carmela, Neptune
Look: Haggard, shifty, polished,
thin, ostentatious, sunday best,
smelly
Your Backstory
You have some good evidence that
someone you know isn’t human.
Take a String on them.
There is one person that you trust
absolutely, even if they don’t
always see things for what they
are. You’ve even shared your
Obsession with them. Take a String
on them and they take two Strings
on you.
Darkest Self
None of them will listen to you.
Don’t they understand how import-
ant this is to the world? Pursue
your Obsession at all costs, dragging
as many people along as you can. If
you can’t force them, then they’re
just another obstacle on your path
to enlightenment of yourself, and
of others. You escape your Darkest
Self when you come to understand
how much you have hurt others by
your obsessive behavior.
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Eyes: Distant eyes, wide eyes, dart-
ing eyes, confident eyes, worrying
eyes
Origin: Gloryhound, a legacy,
close encounter, the people must
know
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Believer move.
• Take another Believer move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in an Investigation Squad.
Conditions
o Always Watching
Believer Moves When someone is talking about
You get The Truth is Out There, and you or your Obsession, you may
one more move. give them a String to bust in half-
cocked and carry 1 forward to
• The Truth is Out There pursuing your Obsession for that
You have an Obsession with a scene.
person, group, location, event or
object. When you satisfy your o Precaution
curiosity and find something new When pursuing your Obsession, and
about your Obsession, mark
you’re in over your head, reduce
experience. When you believe any harm you take by 1 and add 1
you’ve learned everything you can to any rolls you make to Keep Your
about your Obsession, change it to Cool. If someone is aiding you in
something new. When you reveal your investigation, they also gain
your Obsession to someone for the this benefit.
first time, they take a String on
you. o Trust No One
When you go behind the back of
o You Gotta Believe Me
an authority figure to pursue your
When you preach to the nonbe-
Obsession, mark experience. If you
lievers roll with Hot. On a 10+,
are caught, add 1 to your roll to
they take your side or they gain
Run Away this scene.
the condition Conspirator. On a
7-9, they give you a condition and o I Know in My Heart
choose one:
When you ignore the evidence and
+ You take a string on them.
+ They promise something they
double down on what you already
believe, add 1 to all your rolls to
think you want.
Shut Someone Down and
+ They make a run for it.
Turn Someone On for the rest of the
scene.
o Super Sleuth
When you go hunting for physical
evidence, roll to Gaze Into the Abyss.
If anyone is aiding you, give them a
String and add 1 to your roll. On a
hit, you receive some sort of
physical clue to your investigation.
Sex When you have sex with someone, whichever one of you is more
Move immersed in the supernatural take two Strings on the other.
Playing the Calaca
Disarming, cute, freakish, and yet so cheerful. The Calaca is the happiest
person dressed in funeral blacks you’ve ever seened, a wise confidant who
gives the most profound advice one moment, writing odes to death and
decay while using a brightly colored pen. Your Haunting Visage might be
horrificially terrifying but that doesn’t change your devious sunny
disposition. Solve the problems brought forth to you and make sure,
whoever they are, remembers your name.

Your two stat choices both have Dark 2 because of your connection to
death itself, and how integral it is to you. But your secondary stat will
shape your actions, are you the party spirit who tells people to accept death
as a new beginning rather than the end (Dark 2 & Hot 1) or do you show
people how cruel and forebearing death really is, a literal spirit of death,
wings and all. (Dark 2 & Cold 1) The Calaca doesn’t capitlize on
oppurtunities, rather it creates them.

Moves such as Sugar Skull and Morte Alata make your Haunting Visage ever
stronger, allowing you supplment most of your moves for your strongest
stat. Pick those moves if you intend to be in your true form alot and want
to get your mileage out of it. Moves like Day of the Dead and Santa Muerte
are wild card that can change your entire pace pace around. Helping people
you care about especially by giving them guidance should be one of your
main priorities. Your story is the story how made other people’s stories
better. Your meddling creates drama but you best believe they’ll remember
you at the end of it all.

Your Darkest Self is dangerous and dark to the say the least, your wisdom
is even more profound and yet cruel. Convince your friends that death is
not the end, it’s the beginning and a beginning they shouldn’t wait to get
started.
Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo by Ruines Humaines
The Calaca
Death is not the end, in fact it is only the beginning. This is what the Calca
believes. Instead of regretting their death like that of the Ghost, or just barely
hanging in as a corpse like the Ghoul, the Calaca is the embodiment of living
it as one of the dead. They want to teach others what death has taught them,
impart the lessons they’ve had over the years. They ocassionally begin to miss
the pleasantries that they had when they were alive, but who cares being dead is
awesome.
However sometimes they don’t want to accept your knowledge or your gift of
death and you can understand. If you could see how great being dead was why
can’t they? Maybe they need a little push, from your friendly walking, talking
skeleton.

Identity
Names: Cal, Catrina, Charity,
Grace, Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel,
Mercedes, Scully
Look: Skin like porcelain, gothic
lolita, deathly pale, painted face,
rail thin
Your Backstory
Someone is actually a long lost
descendant of yours, take a String
on them.
Someone has seen you transform-
ing into your true form, give them
a String.
Darkest Self
Your sweetness and humor is a
mask, you have denied your true
nature far too long. Spent too
much time teaching others to not
to fear death and not enough time
teaching them to embrace it. Twist
your words and teachings, bring
forth others to join your black
parade. You can only escape your
Darkest Self when someone
teaches you to love life again, or
when you drive someone to take
their own life.
Hot 1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold -1
Eyes: Hollow eyes, gleaming eyes,
wise eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes
Origin: Bone elemental, corpse
bride, death spirit, neromantic
construct, summoned ancestor
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Calaca move.
• Take another Calaca move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re apart of a Family Legacy.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark 2
Volatile 1 Dark 2
o Morte Alata
Calaca Moves In your true form, you possess
You get Haunting Visage and choose a pair of bony wings. Roll Dark
two more: instead of Volatile to run away by
escaping into the air.
• Haunting Visage
At any time you can transform into
o Santa Muerte
your true skeletal form. If anyone When you help another character
witnesses this process, they take a come to terms with the concept
string on you. You roll Dark instead of death or the death of someone
else, mark experience and roll to
of Cold to Shut Someone Down, and
cause people to Keep Their Cool in Make Others Feel Beautiful.
your presence. You can’t Turn
Someone On while using this move.
o Day of the Dead
When you throw a party or
o Ofrendas celebration, it invigorates you. You
When someone offers something may use a move from any playbook
to them in your name, give them once for that scene only.
advice on their issue. If you do
Gaze into the Abyss, if you roll a hit
choose one:
+Your visions show what they
must do, they carry 1 forward.
+The visions heal your friend,
they may remove one condition.
+Take a string on your friend.
o Mi Memoria
When you take your fourth harm,
depart from this plane and to the
land of the dead. As long as you
still have strings on a single person
you may return.
o Sugar Skull
You are more pleasant than most
others in your visage, you can roll
to Turn Someone On while in your
true form. When using this move
roll with Dark instead of Hot.
Sex When you have sex with someone, ask them if they will always
Move
remember you. If they say yes, treat it as you had used Ofrendas
and rolled a 10+. Choose all three options instead of one.
Playing the Creature
Protective, territorial, vengeful, and hopeful. The Creature is embodiment of
mother nature rising up to protect itself from industrial expansion.
Whether it be preventing a company from dumping toxic waste into a body
of water, turning a forest preserve into a landfill, using animals in
experiments, or hunting endangered species, the Creature will be there to
stop them. A sort of nature vigilante, the Creature has a cause that they will
pursue considering it their highest priority.

Your two stat choices both have Volatile 2 because your naturally pissed off
that someone is threatening your cause. Whether or not you still believe
that humans can be turned around with some prodding (Volatile 2 and Hot
1) or perhaps that they are beyond reason (Volatile 2 & Cold 1), you put your
environment and your cause first before anything else.

Moves such as Cold-Blooded Fury and Apex Predator allow you to become
more monster than protector. Allowing you to take harm they attempt to
dish out and inflict it right back, but be careful once you draw blood you
might find it hard to avoid all out war against your opposition. Songbird
allows you to make rousing speeches and pursue non-violence, with Frog
Kiss being important when your taking that special someone on a magic
carpet ride of your environment.

Your Darkest Self is when you decide that you can’t stop the inevitable and
perhaps it’s better to turtle up and make best of the time you have. The
bulldozers will be here before dawn, so enjoy the last night you have in
your home. Sometimes you find that you cause is properly protected, and in
that case just take up a new cause to champion towards.
The Creature
All that time and energy on a petition - all the convincing, all the seducing, all
the threatening - and what do they get when they present city hall with a
thousand signatures? They throw it in the trash, and continue to destroy their
home anyway. The Creature wanted to do things peacefully perhaps, they
wanted to believe in the good of man to protect something precious to them.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo from The Shape of Water
But it didn’t work out that way, and now it’s time for plan b. If they won’t read
the signatures, listen to the protests, or speak at the debates then it’s time they
felt the horror of a pissed off monster. Maybe when the town has been
terrorized they’ll finally get it through their thick heads.

Identity
Names: Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil,
Jake, Jenny, Laguna, Madison,
Ramon, Rico, Thetis
Look: Swimmer’s build,
olive-skinned, nearly hairless,
surfer’s tan, fishy smell
Your Backstory
Someone who once an ally to your
cause. They take 2 Strings on you.
You know someone is secretly
involved in workings against your
cause. Take 2 Strings on them.
Eyes: Aquamarine eyes, teary eyes,
limpid eyes, wide-set eyes, black
eyes
Origin: Last of your kind,
chemical spill exposure, first of
your kind, cryptid, magic
Strings
Creature Moves
You get Missing Link and one more.
• Missing Link
Pick an environment, you are
completely adaptable to it. If it’s
a body of water you can breathe
underwater, if it’s a cave system
you can see in the dark and etc.
Additionally, you have a cause
related to your environment. You
get +1 forward to all actions taken
to further your cause.
o Cold-Blooded Fury
When you are filled with righteous
anger in the service of your cause,
you can do extra harm when you
lash out physically.
o Frog Kiss
When you kiss someone while in
your environment to impart the
same adaptability to possess for a
scene. Roll with Hot, on a 10+ they
o Eco-Terrorism
When you turn to violence and
sabotage in order to further your
cause, mark experience and take
a String against someone who is
against your cause.
o Apex Predator
You can shed your human skin to
become a scaly monstrosity. In this
form, you take 1 less harm from
any attack down to a minimum
of 0. You cannot Turn Someone On
and can roll with Volatile to Shut
Someone Down.
o Territorial
Your environment is also your
territory. When you rest in your
territory, clear all conditions and
heal 1 Harm. If someone invades
your territory, you get +1 forward
to attempts to remove intruders
from your territory.

Darkest Self Harm

Everything sucks and nothing you
do can change that. It’s time to
leave this world, grab the
person you care about the most
and retreat back to your
environment. Defend it against
anyone and everyone, and ignore
the rest. You can’t make a differ-
ence anyway. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone shows
you that you’ve changed things for
the better.
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Creature move.
• Take another Creature move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You join some Environmentalists.
Conditions
take to it fine and adapt as normal.
On a 7-9, their body reacts weird
and they take either 1 Harm or a
condition. On a miss, this fails
completely and are harmed greatly.
o Songbird
When you speak passionately to
convince someone to join your
cause, roll with Volatile. On a 10+,
they mark experience if they help
you. On a 7-9, you take a String on
them. On a miss, they take a String
on you.

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 Sex When you have sex with someone, treat protecting them as part

Move
of your cause until you have sex with someone else. Additionally,
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1 treat them as if you had rolled a 10+ while using Frog Kiss.
Playing the Faithful
Judgemental, hypocritical, supportive and commited. The Faithful is
someone who puts their trust in their belief even when they fall short of
their own expectations. The Faithful may lead to questioning the existence
of higher powers, but they also can bring some interesting conflicts with
the supernatural characters forward; especially those with an aversion to
religous symbols.

Your two stat choices both do not mire themselves with Dark, as doing so
would only lead to temptation further down the road. Whether you choose
to preach your word and use your natural charisma to keep to your faith
(Hot 2 & Volatile 1), with a dash of zealotry in the mix or are hypercritical
of these sinners around you (Cold 2 & Hot 1), the road of the Faithful is
about weathering doubt, navigating temptation, and sticking to your faith.

Breath of Life is your most powerful move at your disposal but with having
to tap into Dark, it’s risky and has the potential to harm not only yourself
but the others around you greatly. This move, along with Stigmata and
Unshakeable grant you the ability to defend yourself those who would
tempt you as long as you have a String before hand to spare. If you don’t,
you’ll find yourself drained and having to clear the condition before using
them again. Sanctuary can help with this and any other nasty conditions
and harm you might take throughout your story.

The Faithful is one who can stop and deter violence in their tracks and
avoid those who would attempt to brush aside them. Meant to handle any-
thing thrown at them, however eventually things will break and when they
do it’s going to be biblical. Once you enter your Darkest Self, it’s goodbye
prayer groups and hello smiting the wicked or whoever manages to piss
you off. Sure, it might seem unorthodox, but you know you’ll be forgiven in
the end.
The Faithful
Lost among a sea of ignorance and what they call sin, the Faithful is the lone
paragon amonster the rest. They know the others have no idea what faith is, or
have the humility to commit themselves to anything beyond their petty wants.
But for the Faithful that is ok, it is there job to show them. They’ll preach to
whoever’ll listen and save their souls whether they want it or not.

But your commitments wouldn’t be meaningful without temptation lurking.

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Your body screams at you to betray your sacred promises. Your faith may grant
you strength, but it’s not always easy to stand up for what’s right. It’s hard for
you to be strong all the time, and something’s gotta give.
We all need forgiveness for something, right?

Identity
Names: Rebecca, Rachael, Noah,
Chastity, Jacob, David, Michael,
Leah
Look: Cheery, reserved, average,
strong, old-fashioned
Your Backstory
You watch everyone, practically
unnoticed, waiting for them to slip
up. Take a String on everyone.
Someone knows your greatest sin.
They take 2 Strings on you.
Darkest Self
The judgment of the Heaven and
the divine is upon them! You see
sin and corruption all around you,
and it’s your mission to stamp
it out, burn the wicked and cast
down the prideful! No longer will
they mock you for your beliefs.
You’ll create hell on earth to
save their souls. You escape your
Darkest Self when you repent and
someone forgives you of your
wrongdoings.
Hot 1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Hot 2 Cold -1
Eyes: Sentimental eyes, judgmen-
tal eyes, glimmering eyes, green
eyes
Origin: Raised that way, born
again, back on the wagon, simple
faith, guided by a divine power
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Faifthul move.
• Take another Faithful move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re apart of a Church Group.
Conditions
Volatile 1 Dark -1
Faithful Moves
You choose two:
• Martyr
When you take harm because you
were helping or protecting
someone, mark experience and
take a String on whoever you were
helping or protecting.
o Eye for an Eye
When someone gives you a
condition, give them a condition in
return. If you were already going
to give them a condition, add 1 to
your next roll against them instead.
o Unshakeable
When another PC tries to Turn You
On or Shut You Down, and you do
not have the condition drained you
may spend a String or gain the
condition drained to have their roll
be shifted one category lower. (10+
to 7-9, 7-9 to a miss.)
o Stigmata
When someone inflicts harm in
your presence, and you do not have
the condition drained you may
spend a String on them or gain the
condition drained to have them
take the harm as well.
Sex When you deny someone sexually, gain the condition tempted
Move
and take a String on them. When you have sex with someone,
you lose all your Strings on them and remove a condition.
o Sanctuary
Whenever you pray and consecrate
a safe place for another, if they
spend a night there with you, both
of you may remove a condition and
heal 1 Harm.
o Breath of Life
When you lay your hands on a
wounded person and do not have
the condition drained roll with
Dark. On a 10+, they heal all harm
and you gain a String on them. On
a 7-9, choose one:
+ They heal all harm and you
take that harm instead.
+ They heal all harm and some-
one nearby (MC’s call) takes that
harm afterward.
Afterward, give yourself the
condition drained.
When you lay your hands on
someone recently dead and you
don’t have the condition drained,
don’t roll, they come back from the
dead and choose one:
+ Someone nearby dies (MC’s
call)
+ You die
+ Something powerful and dark
comes back with them.
Afterwards, give yourself the
condition drained.
Playing the Fury
Desperate, longing to be accepted and the rage, and constantly pushed
around. The Fury is one that knows rejection and pain well. The Fury
balances their life as depicted in Futile Hope. An engine that drives their life,
ability and most importantly their scorn. The Fury operates around putting
themselves out there, willingly trusting and believing in people even though
they know they shouldn’t, and when they are betrayed they are ready to
massively overreact to the provider of that betrayl.

The two stat choices for the Fury describe two very different but equally
powerful beings. The Fury who when pushed to the edge who physically
lashes out with everything forcing others to feel the very real pain the Fury
suffers (Volatile 2, Dark 1) or the Fury that when pushed to the brink
becomes emotionally numb to everything around them and takes
advantage of the emotional vunerabilities of their fellow teens (Cold 2, Dark
1). The Fury is usually but not always an outcast, but perhaps they are a
well respected member of their community but misunderstood. Whatever
the Fury’s deal is, you can bet it’s going to be a story that doesn’t end well
for them.

Your fellow players will have an incentive to be nice to you and then dump
you, taking advantage of gaining strings against you while forcing you to
lose the strings against them. But their temporary gain is ultimatley the
Fury’s greatest weapon. Being Betrayed is to your advantage since it powers
up all your Fury moves and provides lots of grist for the drama mill. Think
carefully when choosing your moves about what kind of walking
megapsychic catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter doesn’t need to imply
pyrokinesis; it’s just a name and can represent any ability that causes chaos
and destruction. Some of the moves are more themed around telepathy or
clairvoyance than the others, which allow you to enact your Fury in much
more devious ways.
When you are your Darkest Self, be sure to go all out with your
descriptions. Your moves can affect crowds and radically alter the
environment when you’re in a full-on rage, so cut loose and enjoy your
revenge.
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The Fury
They never wanted this. They never wanted to be different or special or a freak.
They wanted to fell like every other kid and just fit in. To be liked. To be accept-
ed. Maybe even to be loved. They never felt like it was so much to ask for? The
Fury is not a bad person, not inheritantly. However the Fury is drawn to their
abilities by their circumstances. They were hurt, they were betrayed. They were a
bottle of emotional trauma that has been shaken up one too many times. Guess
what? Now that bottle is ready to pop.
We always expect those that are pushed around to finally push back. But never
like this. The Fury is unbridled anger and power, a teenager scorn. The Fury
knows in their being that if they cannot be loved, then damn well they will be
feared. Feared by everyone.

Identity
Names: Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie,
Charlie, Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will
Look: Raggedy, unfashionable,
nerdy, nervous, beneath notice,
frightened
Your Backstory
You have a secret crush on some-
one. Take a string on them.
Someone has been bullying you.
Give them a string on you.
Darkest Self
Nobody loves you. Nobody ever
will. They only pretended to like
you so they could hurt you even
more. There’s nothing left for you
here but revenge, so burn it all
down. Smash everything to pieces.
Rip their secrets out and lay it bare
for the world to see. You escape
your Darkest Self when you are
confronted by someone who has
never hurt, excluded, or betrayed
you, or are shown an act of
kindness that seems genuine.
Hot -1 Cold -1
Hot -1 Cold 2
Eyes: Desperate eyes, brittle eyes,
teary eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy
eyes
Origin: Genetic mutation,
government program, confluence
of bloodlines, abused child
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Fury move.
• Take another Fury move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Pyschic Gestalt.
Conditions
Volatile 2 Dark 1
Volatile -1 Dark 1
Fury Moves
You get Futile Hope, and choose two
more:
• Futile Hope
Whenever someone acts kind or
accepting toward you, you each
take a string on the other, and you
get the condition Hopeful (which
replaces Betrayed if you have it). If
someone you trust betrays or hurts
you while you are Hopeful, lose all
strings on them, replace Hopeful
with Betrayed, and roll with Dark.
On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest
Self. On a 7-9, choose one:
+ Give them one more string on
you
+ Take 1 harm from psychic
feedback
+ Trigger your Darkest Self
When you are your Darkest Self,
your Fury moves are amplifed.
You can affect groups of victims
in the immediate area, and your
destructive powers can affect large
structures like buildings
o Firestarter
Roll with Volatile to unleash your
powers against your tomentors.
On a 10 up, do 2 harm. On a 7-9, do
1 harm, give them an appropriate
condition, and choose one:
+ Give yourself the same condition
+ Take 1 harm
+ Trigger your Darkest Self
If you are Betrayed, you may also
carry 1 forward against them.
Sex When you have sex with someone, gain two strings on that per-
Move son and give yourself the condition Hopeful.
o Mind Over Matter
When you Lash Out Physically using
your power instead of physical
attacks, you may roll with Cold
instead of Volatile. If you are
Betrayed, your victim must Keep
Their Cool before attempting to Run
Away.
o Scanners
Roll with Dark to invade some-
one else’s mind. On a 10 up, take
a string on them, and they must
honestly answer one question. On
a 7-9, they most honestly answer
one question and choose one:
+ They take a string on you
+ Give yourself the condition
Creepy
+ You each take 1 harm
On a 6 or less, they must answer
one question with a plausible lie
and you must believe it. If you are
Betrayed, do 1 harm to them in
addition to any other results.
o Dominate
You can roll with Volatile instead of
Hot to turn someone on by using
your mental abilities. On a 10 up,
in addition to giving you a string,
they must follow one short-term
command of your choice. On a 7-9
also give yourself the condition
Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also
give them the condition Enthralled.
o Just Desserts
When you successfully Lash Out
Physical or Shut Someone Down on
someone who has wronged you,
gain an experience.
Playing the Gargoyle
Guardians, protectors, old souls, and reluctant warden of the walls. The
Gargoyle is the stone sentry who guards their domain whether it be a high
school, church, a summer camp, community center, nightclub, apartment
complex, or any other establishment that has a community and regular
hours of operation. The Gargoyle has two concerns: their domain, and the
timer associated with their curse that forces them to back to stone until
sunrise or sunset. The Gargoyle must accept the fact that the life they live is
only half as normal, and unlike most teens at their age their curfew is one
they cannot break.

The two stat choices for the Gargoyle expresses two possiblities of what
the Gargoyle represents. The Gargoyle who viciously protects the physical
grounds of their domain and punishes those who would cross it (Volatile
2 & Cold 1) or the literal embodiment of their domain’s spirit who push
to keep that spirit alive (Hot 2, Volatile 1). The Gargoyle ponders it’s own
existence but does not concern itself about the dark things that lie off it’s
ground or beyond the curtain. The Gargoyle can be stoic but relatable, excit-
ed but also lonely. Their struggle to make the best of their situation while
forcing themselves to be ever vigilant; the Gargoyle faces exhaustion and
depression about their situation.

Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone statues in their dormant or animate
forms. You could be a sculpture of metal or wood or plaster, a painting or
mural, an old mascot costume or band uniform. Anything works as long as
it’s at least vaguely an anthropomorphic form, and it should be something
that won’t be easily missed when you are walking around looking like a hu-
man. As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your domain, so protecting and helping it
should always be your first priority. Balancing your duty versus your friends The Gargoyle
will be difficult. Warden & Charge allows you to alleviate this and shift your They remember being a real human kid once, a long time ago. Before they built
protection to the individuals of the community rather than your domain it- the school. Before they were cursed to become the guardian of their domain.
self. If you want to indulge in your monster personality, consider Grotesque But after a while the Gargoyle has come to accept the terms of their eternal
and Gullet in order to become the thing of legends. lease. They are in your classes, attend pep rallies, run for student council. They’ve
enjoyed the same classes over and over again, playing the joys of high school on
repeat.

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They were created to bless this school, and they will continue to guard it for
years to come. The Gargoyle is the warning and the punishment to the various
thieves, vandals, and other undesirables who would stain their grounds.

Identity
Names: Arris, Belvedere, Cary,
Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel,
Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda
Look: Dressed in school colors,
greyish skin, sculpted face, large
mouth, stiff posture
Your Backstory
Someone saw you transforming
into your dormant form. They take
2 strings on you.
You’ve been watching someone
who seems to have a great love
for your school. Take 2 strings on
them.
Darkest Self
Nobody else loves this school like
you do. They just don’t understand
how important it is. You’d be
nothing without it, and you’re
the only one that can protect it.
All those people that had stained
this school- they’re all enemies,
and they all have to be punished.
Severely. You escape from your
Darkest Self only when someone
shows you how your actions are
hurting your school.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Hard eyes, suspicious eyes,
protective eyes, dry eyes, glassy
eyes
Origin: animistic spirit,
cornerstone sacrifce, magically
animated statue, cursed victim
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Gargoyle move.
• Take another Gargoyle move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Stone Flock.
Conditions
Gargoyle Moves
You get School Spirit, and choose
one more:
• School Spirit
From sunrise to sunset (or vice
versa) you appear to be a normal
human being, but when your
period of activity ends, you become
dormant. While in this state, you
are an inanimate object and are
invulnerable to harm, but incapa-
ble of taking any action. Choose a
domain. When not dormant, you
gain a +1 to all rolls while in your
domain.
o Raise the Alarm
During your dormant period, if
someone else is in your domain
you can assume your human form.
If you are alone, you can still
become human, but take 1 harm. If
you leave your domain, you
instantly know if someone enters
or threatens the domain.
o Warden & Charge
For the purposes of School Spirit,
protecting the people associated
with your domain (students, facul-
ty, employees) while outside your
domain counts as being inside your
domain.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, protecting them counts as
protecting your school for the purposes of School Spirit, and
Move you cannot lash out physically at them for any reason. This lasts
until you have sex with someone else.
o Grotesque
You may transform into your
animate form. In this form you are
an inanimate object brought to life.
While animate you take 1 less harm
from anything that harms you(to
a minimum of zero harm) and you
get +1 to Lash Out Physically or Shut
Someone Down.
o Rival Schools
For the purposes of School Spirit,
acting against a rival school or
people associated with it counts as
being within your domain.
o Pep Rally
When rolling to Turn Someone On,
on a hit, you may remove a
condition from them as well as
yourself if you are in your domain.
o Gullet
You can vomit a gout of flame or
torrent of freezing water. Roll with
Volatile or Hot: on a 10 up, you
do 1 harm to your target and they
must hold steady. On a 7-9, choose
one:
+ You do 1 harm
+ You miss, but they must hold
steady
+ You miss, but you get a string
on them
On a 6 or less, you miss and they
get a string on you.
Playing the Minotaur
Violent, lonely, and a downright bullt. The Minotaur is one who secretly
longs for friendship and acceptance, easily manipulated by anyone who
knows how to push their buttons. The Minotaur is often used and aimed
towards specific people in order to carry out the agenda of those who
control the Minotaur.

The two stat choices of the Minotaur highlight similiar schools of thought
with different ways of execution. Your traditional Minotaur is hotblooded
and angry ready to punch their way through anyone while being vunerable
to the jests of others, and being as passionate in their love life as they are
in their violence (Volatile 2 & Hot 1). The other path dictactes a Minotaur
who is as mentally cruel as they are violent pushed this way through years
of loneliness and perhaps even abuse. (Cold 2 & Volatile 1).

The conditions associated with the Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In

the Maze represents a way to express that your dangerous attention has
been drawn to them, whether or not this ends in you beating them up is
up to you. Golden Thread represents someone who is in your good books or
someone who you were asked to leave alone by someone worth listening
to.

The Minotaur revolves around inflicting these conditions as often as possi-

ble. Take the moves Matador and Seeing Red in order to easily dispatch your
conditions to everyone around you. No Way Out represents a more super-
natural move that’ll allow you to track the object of your anger no matter
how far they are.

When your Darkest Self break, you got a list and you’ve checked it twice.
Dispatch as much violence as possible and don’t stop until everyone’s been
given an attitude adjustment.
The Minotaur
It wasn’t like you to be a bully. It’s not your fault your bigger than the others, or
are a little slow in your words, or are as they say naturally scary. But the
Minotaur knows it is what it is. They understand that their friends are afraid
of them or worse want to use them. But atleast if you beat people up for them
they’ll give you the time of day. Anything is better than being alone.

Sometimes you regret it, sometimes it hurts you. But getting angry always seem
Credits to be a fine solution. Anything to escape the labyrinth.

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Identity
Names: Aster, Bastien, Doracas,
Ferdie, Johnny, Manny, Nandi,
Norman, Rosie, Shamala
Look: Beefy, sweaty, looming,
shaggy, bodybuilder
Your Backstory
You regulary act as an enforcer for
someone. They take two Strings on
you.
You recently bullied someone. Take
a String on them.
Darkest Self
You’re nothing but a violent animal
and everybody knows it. They used
you like a weapon pointing at their
enemies. So it’s time, be the violent
animal. Track down anyones that’s
In the Maze, and show them how
bestial you truly are or find new
victims. You escape your Darkest
Self when you’ve taken vengeance
against someone In the Maze or are
confronted by someone with the
Golden Thread.
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Dull eyes, red-glinting eyes,
furious eyes, threatening eyes,
lonely eyes
Origin: Bestial demigod, abused
animal growth hormones, cursed,
experiment, anger issues
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Minotaur move.
• Take another Minotaur move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You have a a Herd of Cronies.
Conditions
o The Matador
Minotaur Moves When someone asks you to beat
You get Labyrinth, and one more. someone up for them, you may
treat it as if they had spent a String
• Labyrinth and mark experience. Give their
When you do harm to someone target the condition In the Maze.
gain a string. You gain +1 on all
rolls against someone except Turn o Seeing Red
Someone On when they have the
When you Gaze into the Abyss
condition In the Maze. You take -1
about someone your furious with,
on all rolls against someone except
roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a
Turn Someone On when they have
hit give them the condition In the
the condition Golden Thread.
Maze, on a 10+ the next time you
would damage you do an
o Bestial Lust additional 1 Harm.
When you roll to Turn Someone On,
remove a condition from yourself. o Ariadne
If you do this give your target the When someone with In the Maze
Golden Thread condition. condition asks for your forgiveness
and you comply, take a String on
o Bully that person and give them the
When you use physical force to Golden Thread condition.
intimidate or harass, roll Volatile
instead of Cold to Shut Someone
Down.
o No Way Out
You have a link to people who
incur your wrath. When someone
has the condition In the Maze you
can always track where they are.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, give them a string on you and
the condition Golden Thread. They may choose to ask you to spare
Move one person; if they do, give that person the condition Golden
Thread as well.
Playing the Mummy
Royal, confident, powerful, and fallen. The Mummy is a person out of time
that has lost their former glory with a unquenchable thirst to get it all
back. They are aware of exactly how great they are, and completely
convinced of their own innate royalty. Never questioning whether they
deserve it or not, because of course they do. Only the best of the best will
suit someone with their lofty status. Any actions they take to aquire these
things is justified to them. Selfish at their core.

The two stat choices paint the same story but different themes, the
Mummy can be as glorious as they think they are with beautiful stature
that truly makes them feel like the ruler they truly are (Hot 2 & Dark 1),
however the Mummy can be someone drapped in the mysticism that is
often associated with the lore, a priest or priestess that uses their magic in
order to ensnare everyone around them, forcing them to submit (Dark 2 &
Cold 1).

Taking the move Soulmate adds another whole new field of play to the
Mummy allowing you to pick another character and giving you the task to
force them under you, as your second in command, but your second
nonetheless. Mummy’s Curse deters others from attemping to harm you, and
Soul Eater giving you a powerful weapon to use against those who try to
cross you. The Cursed Artifacts is by far the most powerful move the Mum-
my has in terms of versatility but also is a double edge sword. Use it wisely.

Pursue your former glory, whether you do this through subversion or

directly, the Mummy may attempt to sate themselves with their new life
but in the end it will never be enough. When you finally enter your Darkest
Self, your plan trumps all and it’s time to go to work.
The Mummy
The Mummy once had it all. Wealth, power, station, the adoration of followers,
love, magic. They were the kings and queens of old civilizations, at the head of
the table, and that life was good. However something took it away from,
wretching them from glory and leaving them with nothing but darkness and the
cruel tides of time.

However now they have awakened, and while the world has moved, some things
Credits still remain the same. They’ll have their rightful place again, and it doesn’t
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Identity
Names: Ampata, Ananka, Ardath,
Cleo, Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Otzi,
Ramses, Xin Zhui
Look: Imperious, old-fashioned,
wealthy, foreign, compelling,
powerful
Your Backstory
Someone has accepted their place
at your feet. Take a String on them.
You see someone as a threat to
your position, they take a String on
you.
Darkest Self
You have been patient for lon-
Eyes: Haugthty eyes, unsleeping
eyes, dry eyes, heavily made up
eyes, lonely eyes
Origin: Betrayed royalty, peat bog
murder, sacrificial offering, watery
grave, frozen solid
Strings
Harm
Mummy Moves
Take Mummy’s Curse and two more.
• Mummy’s Curse
When anyone inflicts at least 1
harm on you, they are forced to
roll to Keep Your Cool. If they are an
NPC, give them a condition.
o Soul Eater
You feed off the life force of others
with a kiss. When you feed roll
with Dark. On a 10+, deal 1 Harm
and mark experience. On a 7-9, deal
1 Harm and they take a string on
you.
o Soulmate
A lover from a past life has been
reincarnated. Choose someone to
be your soulmate, you add 1
ongoing to all rolls against one
another. You may spend a String
you have on your soulmate to enter
any scene they are in.
o Past Life
o Royal Decree
You may roll with Hot to Shut
Someone Down.
o Cursed Artifacts
You possess a large collection of
cursed artifacts. You can use these
artifacts to your own advantage if
you are willing to endure the side
effects. Each time you use an arti-
fact, choose a Boon:
+ Add 1 to one of your stats for a
scene.
+ Do 1 Harm to someone.
+ Remove 1 Harm from someone.
+ Give someone a condition from
someone.
+ Remove a condition from
someone.
+ Treat one roll as if you had
rolled a 10+.
Also the MC chooses a Curse:
+ Subtract 1 from one of your
stats for a scene.
+ Take 1 Harm.
+ Gain a condition of the MC’s
choice.

ger than most civilizations have
existed, and now your patience is
exhausted. No more planning, no
more manipulating. Claim your
riches, retake your birthright,
eliminate the kin of your enemies.
If you have a soulmate, pursue
them relentlessly. You escape your
Darkest Self when you achieve one
of your goals or someones manages
you to force you into submission.
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Mummy move.
• Take another Mummy move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Ancient Cult.
Conditions
Whenever you meet a new + Someone gains a string on you.
character you may declare if you + One of your Mummy moves
knew them in a past life, roll with stops working for a scene.
Dark. On a 10+, the person’s past
life was a friend or ally, take a
String on each other and mark
experience. On a 7-9, they were
an acquaintance, make a request
of them if they take it they gain a
String of you or mark experience.
On a miss, they were an enemy.

Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, take a String on them and
give them a command. They carry 1 forward toward any action

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move they take that is intended to benefit you. If they are your
soulmate, mark experience.
Playing the Muse
Misunderstood genius, passionate, and obsessed. The Muse is a savant who
can elevate their skill to truly be called a master, or they could if something
wasn’t holding them back. A terrible injury, disfigurement, or other obsta-
cle prevented them from truly reaching the heights they were destined for.
Both those who cannot do, teach. So the Muse takes on a Prodigy, someone
to pass down their art. The Muse is crazed brilliance manifested directed at
their one chosen student. They’ll do anything - no matter how vile - to see
them succeed.

The two stat choices for the Muse both contain Cold because they are indif-
ferent and hardened to most of the outside world. Whether you approach
furthering your Prodigy as something increasingly violent (Dark 2 & Cold 1)
or perhaps you prefer to ensure to keep your Prodigy under your thumb as
long as possible (Cold 2 & Volatile 1), your moves and your actions revolve
around your Prodigy.

If you wish to eliminate the obstacles around your Prodigy choose Punjab
Lasso in order to give the upper hand as your targets become embroiled
within your schemes and traps. Taking Grasshopper or Scorpion and Don Juan
Triumphant allows you to focus on grooming your Prodigy to become your
eternal love. When your Darkest Self strikes it’s now the time to enact that
plan and whisk them away to the land of your fantasies.

The Muse
You’ve always had an amazing talent, something that could set you beyond the
rest. But the others never could see past your flaws, whether it was your past, or
your own appearance and so you remained scorned that is until you met them.
They got your attention whether it was their own skill, beauty, or just passion.
You knew in an instant that you needed them, you wanted them, and their
success became your own.

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Photo taken by @A_Star_Guardian
You’ll do anything to make sure they get ahead in life, taking out the
oppositon, teaching them personally, or leaving a trail of bodies and bribery. You
will become their guardian angel, the phantom behind their genius, the man
behind the curtain.

Identity
Names: Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason,
Karla, Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song,
Winslow
Look: Fidgety, scarred, pale and
sickly, disabled, well-dressed
Your Backstory
Choose one person to be your
Prodigy. Take three Strings on
them. Give them one String on you.
Somebody spins tales of your
masked alter ego, and is one of
your biggest fans. Take one String
on them.
Darkest Self
There is only one person in the
world who truly understands
your genius and torment, and you
will do anything to make them
yours forever. It’s time to enact
your plan. Kidnap them, eliminate
anyone who interferes and bound
them to you for eternity. Only
when your Prodigy takes harm as
a result of your actions can you
escape your Darkest Self.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Eyes: Broken eyes, hopless eyes,
fanatical eyes, inspired eyes, jealous
eyes
Origin: Born disfigured, faustian
bargain, terrible accident, targeted
by a rival, crippling insecurity
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Muse move.
• Take another Muse move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You recruit Benefactors to your
cause.
Conditions
Muse Moves
You get Masked Phantom, and
Prodigy, choose one more:
• Masked Phantom
When you wear a mask, no one can
perceive your true identity. Other
players who roll a hit to lash out
physically towards you can choose
to forgo all other effects and rip
your mask off instead.
• Prodigy
You always have exactly one
Prodigy. The first is chosen during
Your Backstory. If you deny and
scorn your Prodigy, lose all strings
on them and choose a new one. If
they deny and scorn you, they lose
all strings on you and you choose a
new one. When you choose a new
Prodigy, give them a String. You
always carry 1 forward to
furthering the career or fame of
your Prodigy.
o The Lair
Your school or setting contains
your secret lair, accessed through
a variety of hidden passages and
ways only you know and have
made your own. When you’re
nearby your lair and you run away,
you can treat a miss as a 7-9, or a
7-9 as a 10, but the person chasing
you is now aware that your lair
exists.
When you have sex with your Prodigy, they can act as if they had The
Sex Lair move until either of you has had sex with another. If you are
Move intimate with someone other than your Prodigy, you can treat them as
your second Prodigy until either of you is intimate with someone else.
o Don Juan Triumphant
When you are wearing your mask,
you can roll with Cold instead of
Hot to turn someone on. Add 1
to your roll if your target is your
Prodigy.
o Punjab Lasso
When you spend time planning
and observing someone, you can
roll Dark instead of Volatile to lash
out physically. When you lash out
physically at someone within your
lair, you may this move regardless
if you have time to plan or not.
o Grasshopper or Scorpion?
When you force your Prodigy to
make a choice between you and
someone else, they choose one:
+They stay with you, you take a
String on them, and they add 1
on their next roll against you.
+They leave you, they lose a
String on you if they have any,
and you add 1 on their next roll
towards interfering with or
harming their other interest.
o Toccata & Fugue
When someone unmasks you for
the first time, give them a String
and mark experience. If this was
done willingly, you gain a String on
them and they may clear a
Condition. If they did this against
your will, give them a Condition
and add 1 forward toward harming
them for this scene.
Playing the Proxy
Victim, villain, slaver, and slave. The Proxy is under the eye of a cruel entity,
forcing them to choose between their own survival or the survival on
others. Aware of their actions some times and other times not, the Proxy
dawns the mask in order to serve it’s master. Their task, to torment the
target that It gives them and bring these poor unfortunate souls closer to
It’s grasp. When their target’s spirit is broken and consumed, the Proxy can
rest easy if only for a bit. Another one in it’s ranks.

The two stat choices for the Proxy allow you to choose a path of a violent
and dangerous being (Volatile 2 & Dark 1) or the silent watcher who waits
among the tree (Dark 2 & Cold 1). With a consistenly low Hot stat, they
are unhinged and the feeling of something being off is ever present. From
their masked alter ego to their increasing paranoia and prey mentality; the
theme of desperation and survival are big for the Proxy.

While you play the Proxy, your information gathering is your greatest toll.
Use the Proxy’s ability to quickly gain strings in order to entice your targets
into the grasp of It. Entice and over experience for investigating your clues,
taking trips into the woods or abandoned houses at night, or convincing
them to poke around in things they probably shouldn’t; then use The Sick-
ness to force them to take their own The Sickness and continuing the chain.

If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to describe your notes, videos, or voicemails
as disturbingly and puzzlingly as possible. Inflicting the right conditions is
how you can gain leverage against your target and force them deeper into
It’s control. Make them vunerable, your goal is not to break them instantly
but rather wear them down and when they are at their weakest, It will
come for them. The Proxy
It has chosen it’s champion, it’s slave, it’s hunter. It doesn’t have a known origin,
and cannot be comprehended but one thing for sure: It is dangerous. Ever swell-
ing darkness, and living in our deepest and darkest of imaginations. The Proxy
is a plaything of It. The Proxy may not understand why the Sickness has been
passed onto them, but it knows that if it does not play the game It is presenting
to them, than a fate worse than death awaits them.

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But the Proxy has a way out, pass the Sickness on and hunt for It’s favor. Every
victim the Proxy stalks and hunt is another few years, days, or perhaps only
hours added onto the Proxy’s lifespan. As long as they continue to be useful to It
they can survive.

Identity
Names: Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan,
Jessie, Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler,
Zack
Look: Baby face, carrying a
camera, clinging briars, gangly,
sickly, shifty
Your Backstory
You’ve been spying on everyone for
a while now. Gain one string on
everyone. Gain two extra strings on
your subject.
You’ve also been obsessively
recording yourself, and someone
has discovered and watched some
of your footage. That person takes
a string on you.
It starts with five strings on you.
Darkest Self
You’ve become desperate now - It
is closing in, and your time is
running out. You’ll do anything to
save yourself, and you know what
It wants. Find someone close to
your subject and offer them up -
either kill them yourself in Its
name, or offer them up to It
directly. You escape your Darkest
Self when you have sacrificed
someone else in your place or you
face the music yourself.
Eyes: Angry eyes, dead eyes,
paranoid eyes, sorrowful eyes,
veiled eyes
Origin: Stalked since childhood,
delved too far, created a hoax that
became true, student flmmaker,
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Proxy move.
• Take another Proxy move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You’re in a Secret Cult.
Conditions
Proxy Moves
You get The Sickness, and choose
one more:
• The Sickness
Choose one character to be your
subject. You may change which
character is your subject at any
time, but you must have least
three strings on your new subject.
Everytime you spend a string on
your subject, It takes a string on
them.
o Cryptic Bullshit
When you Shut Someone Down
indirectly, through sending them a
written or video message, roll Dark
instead of Cold. This can consist of
mysterious but meaningful images,
phrases written in ciphers, or re-
curring symbols. Add +1 to the roll
if it’s against your subject.
o Path of Black Leaves
When a character attempts to run
away from you, you may spend
a string. Unless you allow it, you
cannot be run away from. You will
always be around the next corner,
hiding behind a nearby tree, or
your victims will find themselves
repeatedly passing through the
same hallways and doors without
actually getting anywhere. Gain a
string on your subject if you allow
them to escape, instead of
spending a string.
o Am I Interrupting?
Gain a string when you
successfully gain access to your
subject’s home or their social
media accounts and leave a sign
for them to find. When infiltrating
your subject’s home you do not
trigger security, or leave accidental
traces of your prescence.
o Stalk
When you gaze into the abyss
about your subject, On a 10 up,
gain a string on them and you
know exactly where they are
and what they’re doing. On a 7-9
choose one:
+ You can see what they’re doing,
but It gains a string on you.
+ You can see what they’re doing,
but take 1 harm.
o Masked and Dangerous
When you are masked, others
must Keep Their Cool before they
can attempt to Turn You On, Shut
You Down, or Lash Out Physically at
you. If you successfully Run Away
while masked, people will only
have vauge and hazy recollections
of you.

Hot -1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark 1 Sex

When you have sex with someone, make them your new
subject (even if they don’t meet the criteria), and both of you

Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2 Move mark experience. This counts as spending a string on them.
Playing the Reaper
Legendary, sought after, burdened, and inadequate. The Reaper has a great
deal of power, but it comes with responsibility and using it to benefit
themselves personally is problematic. Others suck up to the Reaper, but the
Reaper wonders if anyone cares about them, personally, or just their job.
They often live in the shadow of their predecessor. It’s hard to live up to
the name.

The two stat choices for the Reaper present two very different sides of the
same coin. A character who is cruel and very much in touch with their
position as the ferrymen of the dead (Dark 2 & Cold 1) or a Reaper who is
much more in touch with their emotions and very much here to stop to
punch a timecard (Volatile 2 & Hot 1). Your powers of death make you leaps
and bound stronger than most people and other skins, however just keep
in mind the code of the reaper, which is a guillotine that hangs over your
neck at all times.

All in a Day’s Work and Don’t Fear the Reaper allow you to play to the duality
of your nature, rewarding you for just following orders if you choose to
simply stick to the protocol or encouraging you to go off-book and aid in
whatever problems you deem fit. Are you a Reaper because you are fulfill-
ing a debt or an obligation, or perhaps you see yourself as a dark avenger
ready to strike at those that would bring the realm of the Underworld into
play.

Your powers of death make you ever so versatile for every situation, choose
The Reaping and Gate of the Underworld if you wish to play as something
more akin to the Chosen. Choosing to go with Convene, and License to
Depart puts you more on the role of a spiritual medium than your typical
loose cannon Reaper.
Using your Sex Move not only brings them into the messy business of
reaping but may also aid them at their darkest hour. When Darkest Self is
in effect, you are “fired” from guiding, ferrying, and executing, those powers
should be lost as well. It is important that, without the mantle of Reaper,
you are just a normal person.
Credits
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Photo from “Stranger Things”, owned by Netflix.
The Reaper
They are the teens with the strange jobs they are always going to, always
cancelling at the last minute because they got “called in”. They might not want
this job but deep down they know it’s what makes them special. The Reaper is
a defender, a salary man, and most of the time it’s errand boy. The Reaper is
called in to face the threats to the sanctity of life and death, the Ghoul that lives
forever, he’s on the list. That Ghost that keeps attacking the students after dark,
they’re another name for the reaping.
The Reaper is an ally to all things living and scourge to everything undead or
immortal. Armed with great power, and even greater responsibility.
But sometimes you just need to let loose and break a few rules.
Identity
Names: Alexander, Chandra, Cla-
rice, Delphine, Edward, Hannibal,
Isis, Rex, Somchai, Yukio
Look: Concealed, pale, average,
lanky, nervous
Your Backstory
Someone knows your secret, and
how to reach your superiors. They
take a String on you.
You know someone who is terrified
of death and all it’s friends, take a
String on them.
Darkest Self
You’ve abused your powers too
long and are now fired. Losing the
title and the perks that come with
being a Reaper. You have thrown
away what makes you special,
and now no one will care about
you. You will do anything to get it
back. To escape your Darkest Self,
you must resolve and repent for
your violations of the code to the
satisfaction of your superiors, or
when you take on an even greater
mission.
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Hot 1 Cold -1 Volatile 2 Dark -1
Eyes: Hollow Eyes, Normal Eyes,
Ashamed Eyes, Judgmental Eyes,
Sarcastic Eyes, Nurturing Eyes
Origin: stumbled on to the power,
the replacement, heir to the scythe,
it’s just my day job
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Gain the remaining Powers of
Death.
• Take another Reaper move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You are apart of a Reaper Squad.
Conditions
Reaper Moves
You get Code of the Reaper and
choose one more move.
• Code of the Reaper
When you call upon your Powers of
Death for official Reaper business.
you roll your powers normally.
When you use them for any other
reason, roll Dark. On a 10+, your
powers work normally. On a 7-9,
choose one:
+ Your superiors take notice of
your violation.
+ Someone learns a secret of
your trade, they gain a String.
+ You pay the blood price, take 1
Harm.
o All in a Day’s Work
When you successfully complete a
task assigned by your superiors or
when you risk your job for
someone, mark experience.
o Not Their Time
When you intercede and attempt
to bring someone back from the
dead or perhaps saving yourself.
Roll Dark. On a 10+, fate is rewrit-
ten and they/you return on the
brink with 3 Harm. On a 7-9, they
only come back to finish their goal.
o Don’t Fear the Reaper
When someone flirts with you,
bribes you, or attempts to turn
you on successfully, take a string
on them. If you refuse, they lose a
String on you.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, they hold 1. The next time
they would mark their fourth Harm Box, they instead spend
Move their hold.
Powers of Death
Choose two Powers of Death to
begin with.
o The Reaping
You have a specially made reaper
weapon. When using this weapon,
treat rolling a 7-9 on lash out
physically checks against your
targets as if you have rolled a 10+.
o Convene
You can call for the spirits of the
deceased and speak with them as
long as you possess a personal item
of theirs.
o License to Depart
With a short prayer, you may
instantly send any spirit, demon,
or otherworldly power back to
whence they came. If this entity is
stronger than you, however, you
must weaken it in order to
successfully send it.
o Alter Fate
By touching a person, you may
clear them of ailments or
conditions. They are healed but
choose yourself or someone else
willing to gain that condition or
ailment. You may spend a string on
someone who is unwilling to have
them gain it instead.
o Gates of the Underworld
You can bring yourself and anyone
you are touching to the
underworld and your headquarters.
Beware many things call the
underworld it’s home.
Playing the Succubus
Lonely, heartless, public, dangerous. The Succubus is temptation in the
literal flesh: always there to give everyone what they want, to make up for
their weaknesses, to save them the trouble of becoming a better person. All
they have to do is ask. But deep down they know, everytime they ask, the
Succubus takes something from them and eventually they’ll be nothing left
to take.

The two stat choices for the Succubus both have Hot 2, because turning
people on and enticing them with your assets is exactly what you were
born to do. If your looking to play a mega bitch who isn’t afraid to be a
tease and put down those lesser than them (Hot 2 & Cold 1) or perhaps
maybe your more in touch with your infernal side and want to better emu-
late the true legend of the Succubus (Hot 2 & Dark 1), the Succubus has got
you covered. The Succubus relies on buying their friends rather than mak-
ing them. Horde all the strings you can, and keep them under your spell.

Your Infernal Gifts allow you turn the whole tide of the game, the trade
off is you never decide how they get used. Don’t get directly involved with
conflicts, instead play the role of the arms dealer and fuel both sides with
your infernal delight. Take Addictive to help better keep NPCs and other
players under your thumb. Take advantage of the fact it doesn’t require a
full sexual act to activate. Wet Dreams is a powerful tool that allow you to
better manipulate and position for your agenda, but note that while pow-
erful you’ll need to be cunning in order to be in someone’s prescence while
they sleep.

Your Sex Move is going to be going off alot, netting alot of Strings on ev-
eryone you take a turn with and giving you more leverage for your other
actions. When you Darkest Self finally comes to light, your not worrying
about playing a sensitive game anymore. You want to mess with enough
relationships until the whole social order of the school comes down.
The Succubus
Everybody wants them. Hell, you can’t deny that you want them to. They are lust
incarnate. People come to them begging for a moment of pleasure in the school’s
toilet, or to help seduce the object of their desire. Everyone wants something and
the Succubus is there to give to them. They understand that their relationships
are based off a system of give and take, and that the people who claim to love
them are nothing more than junkies of their flesh.

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This skin was designed by Ernesto Pavan and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo from Golden Darkness Cosplay.
The Succubus feeds of people desire and hidden kinks that make them feel a
bit better about their own jostled existence. When their partners get what they
want, ultimately they do as well. Mama always said your body was a temple, she
never said it couldn’t be open for a priced admission.
Identity
Names: Bastien, Damon, Eve,
Georgina, Judith, Lilith, Salem, Sa-
lome, Saoul, Vincent.
Look: Boy/Girl next door, chase
and pure, jailbait, dark and sexy,
just a bit too nice
Your Backstory
Somebody asked you for a Gift,
and did something horrible with it.
Ask them what they did and take 3
Strings on them.
Someone caught you by surprise,
by doing something for you with-
out expecting anything in return.
You don’t understand but you’re
going to discover why, ask them
what they did for you and give
them 2 Strings.
Darkest Self
You thought you were using
others, but they are really using
you. You are their whore, their
harlot, their toy, and you always
have been. Why not be exactly
what they all want? You give
yourself to everybody and
anybody. You don’t react when
mistreated, because you believe
you deserve it. You escape your
Darkest Self when someone shows
you unconditioned kindness.
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Hot 2 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark -1
Eyes: Amazing eyes, “a bit off”
eyes, otherworldly eyes, piercing
eyes
Origin: demonblood, from Hell,
genie out of the bottle, possessed,
sold your soul
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Gain the remaining Infernal Gifts.
• Take another Succubus move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You have the help of an Incubus.
Conditions
Succubus Moves Infernal Gifts
You get Infernal Gifts and choose Choose two Infernal Gifts to begin
one more move. with.
• Infernal Gifts o Gift of Beauty
When you have time and intimacy Anyone bestowed with this gift
with someone, you can bestow may spend it to get an automatic
upon them an infernal gift. They 10 when Turning Someone On.
must be willing. If they accept, you
take a string on them and they o Gift of Might
gain the gift until it is spent. When Anyone bestowed with this gift
your gift is spent, you mark may spend it to get an automatic
experience. You can bestow as 10 when Lashing Out Physically.
many Gifts as you want, but
nobody can have more than one o Gift of Prescence
gift bestowed upon them at once. Anyone bestowed with this gift
o Addictive may spend it to get an automatic
10 when Shutting Someone Down.
When you give physical pleasure to
somebody else; they gain the
condition addicted to [your name]. o Gift of Knowledge
Anyone bestowed with this gift
o Taboo may spend it to get an automatic
When you spend a string to offer 10 when Gazing into the Abyss.
someone experience to do some-
thing against the community’s
o Gift of Protection
moral and sexual standards and
they accept mark experience. Anyone bestowed with this gift
may spend it to counter the effect
o Wet Dreams
of any skin move.
When in the presence of someone
who is sleeping, roll with Dark. On
a hit, you can see their dreams. Ask
2 on a 10+, 1 on a 7-9:
+What is this person’s heart’s
desire?
+Who does this person hate the
most?
+What does this person
desperately need?
Sex
When you have sex with someone, you always bring them to
climax and take a String. If you reach it too, give them a String;
Move if not, inflict them with an appropriate condition.
Playing the Unchained
Repressed, looking to be freed, addictive, and wrapped up in immense
dysphoria. The Unchained is violent dysfunction wrapped in a package and
topped with a pretty bow. The Unchained has their other self as an outlet
for all their secret needs. Constantly warring between accepting
accountability for the actions of the other, or living the life they always
wanted to. There is no obstacle the Unchained can’t break through with the
aid of his alter ego.

The two stat choices of the Unchained reflect not just yourself but also
your other self. Is your base identity someone who is cold and has
immersed themselves in keeping others at bay before transforming into a
social butterfly of flirting and violence (Cold 2 & Dark 1)? Or maybe your
base identity is someone who is outspoken and slightly vunerable, leaving
your other self as a cold uncaring beast who only wants to hurt others (Hot
2 & Dark 1)? Because of your natural connection to both sides of yourself,
you are naturally immersed in Dark.

Taking Dysphoria/Eurphoria allows benefits for each stat spread you can
choose from allowing you to perform normal actions to your transformed
form’s strength rather than their weakness. Taking Addiction and Unholy
Glee allows you to play as someone who enjoys their transformation rather
than fearing it, but be careful it’s a slippery slope. If you want to make your
other self a truly frightening change, take Your Not Me! for the potential to
turn your other self into a full blown menace.

Play to your strengths of versatility and don’t be afraid to cause a mess,

by transforming there is no problem you can’t solve. Understand that one
cannot exist without the other and balance is always needed. When your
Darkest Self you are at your strongest but you are also at your most
vulnerable.
The Unchained
Most people wonder about the person they should be, doing the things they
shouldn’t do. The Unchained doesn’t need to wonder because their id and ego are
in constant war with one another. All day, every day, burying their real desires
because giving in would mean losing everything - family, friends, and a place
in the world. So they kept their head down, and hated themselves. Everything
feeling wrong to them.

Credits
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This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Photo by Shutterstock
But now it’s time for that to change, have your cake and eat it to. Indulge in
every pleasure you can imagine. People get hurt all the time, it’s a small price to
pay for tasting the forbidden fruit, right?
Identity
Names: Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank,
Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia, Marlowe,
Mary, Tom
Look: Pristine, stuffy, nerdy,
average, tailored, sickly, unkempt,
tendy, hulking, stunning, small
Your Backstory
Someone is important to you and
someone is important to your
other self. Give a string to each
person.
Someone has accidentally
witnessed your transformation into
your other self. Each of you takes a
string on one another.
Darkest Self
You transform into your other self,
but now things are different. You
are truly free because it is in
complete control. No limits, no
constraints, no regrets. Use and
abuse anyone in your way. Nothing
is important but satisfying your
every whim. You escape your
Darkest Self when you cause some
sort of unforgivable harm to
someone your normal self cares
about.
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1
Eyes: Yearning eyes, dilated eyes,
frightened pupils, bloodshot eyes,
smoldering eyes, hungry eyes
Origin: Checmical concotion,
invocation of Janus, mathetmatical
formula, sensory deprivation
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Unchained move.
• Take another Unchained move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You form a Collective.
Conditions
Unchained Moves o Freedom of Consequence
Whenever you transform from
You start with The Formula, choose your other self back to normal, heal
one more. 1 Harm and clear a condition.
• The Formula
o Unholy Glee
You have an other self, this
When you are your normal self
alternate version of may look or
and take happiness or pride in the
act completely different. It to fulfill
violent or shameful incidents your
your repressed desires. Transform-
other self was involved in, you may
ing in either direction requires
preparation, although you will
mark experience.
always transform back when you
o Enemy Unknown
are unconscious. When you
Your other self is a true separate
transform into your other self, all
identity. Neither of you
stats below 0 add 2 to their
remembers the actions of the
respective stats and all stats above
2 subtract 2 from their respective other. Track strings as if you were
two separate characters, you and
stats.
your other self get a string on the
o Addiction other when you take this move.
You no longer need a preparation
process and may become your oth-
er self at will. Only being uncon-
scious will return you to normal.
When you become your other self,
carry 1 forward. If you go a full day
without becoming your other self,
roll to Keep Your Cool. If you don’t
roll a 10+, give yourself the
condition Withdrawl.
o Dysphoria/Euphoria
When you’re transformed into your
other self, you may roll Hot when
you Shut Someone Down or Keep
Your Cool. You may also roll Cold to
Turn Someone On or Run Away.
Sex When you have sex with someone, your other self carries 1 for-
Move ward to harm that person. When your other self has sex with
someone, take a string on that person.
Playing the Unseen
Voyeuristic, constantly tempted, and watched by no one. The Unseen is
alone and unnoticed. An urban legend and a phantasm, unseen and usually
forgotten. For some reason the Unseen is gone from this world, whether
she is literally invisible or just unable to be noticed. The Unseen is alone but
they are free, they don’t have to go to class if they dont want to. It’s easy
for them to skulk around and spy on everyone, and go about unchalleneged
by anyone.

The two stat choices for the Unseen set you on two different paths. Are
you a being who is cold towards everyone and out of touch, looking to
torment those for her lonliness (Cold 2, Volatile 1), or perhaps you are the
embodiment a literal urban legend and a connection deeply ingrained with
the Abyss (Dark 2, Cold 1). With a low Hot stat across the board, the Unseen
cannot interact with others to the point were perhaps they have forgotten
what it means to interact with people in the first place. Whether it be the
mystery of tracking down the reason for your condition or learning to live
in a world that recognizes you one moment and forgets you the next.

When playing the Unseen, your main mechanic is your gift as well as your
curse. While you won’t be able to interact with others most of the time,
you will be able to use your talents to gather information and complete
your agenda unopposed. Taking Voyeur allows you to capitilize on this more
and allows you universal prescence in a game. Blackmailer grants you
bonuses on collecting dirt on all the PCs and NPCs within the game
allowing you to rack up strings and free to spend your social leverage. If
you have They’re Not There, think about how to inadvertenly shut your
target down, you won’t be able to directly interact or even leave stuff but
by pushing others you can get to the people you want to get to. The Unseen
They’ve seen every dirty secret that this place has to offer. From the secret
Give into the temptation to do all sort of things since nobody can see you. hookups, to the secret drug users, the murders, the thieves, all of them thought
Your not accountable to anyone, after all. As your Darkest Self, go all out: no one had seen them. But the Unseen saw them. Nobody every noticed them,
create a new aspect of your legend, whether it’s causing major chaos, but they see everything. All the things they do when they no-one is watching.
inflicting heavy violence, or creating a spectacle that they cannot ignore And maybe it’s time they started taking advantage of that.
your name. They will worship you eventually.

Credits
This is a Skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This skin was designed by Topher Gerkey and updated by Nicholas Francia
Art created by James Green.

Identity
Names: Billy, Cecily, Grifn, Grover,
Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy,
Sebastian, Sue
Look: Bad posture, peering
through bangs, beiges and creams,
t-shirt that is a hand-me-downse
Your Backstory
You are beneath notice. Erase all
strings that other characters have
on you so far.
You watch everyone in their
private moments. Take 1 string on
everyone else.
Someone inadvertantly showed you
some very juicy blackmail material.
Take 1 extra string on them.
Darkest Self
Such a bland and boring wallflow-
er. You’re not even interesting
enough to torment. None of them
know you even exist. What will it
take to get them to notice you?
Something big. Something bloody.
Something vile and terrifying and
above all, something showy. They
won’t be able to ignore you after
this. You can escape your Darkest
Self when someone makes it clear
that they know you exist.
Hot -1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark -1
Hot -1 Cold 1 Volatile -1 Dark 2
Eyes: Knowing eyes, translucent
eyes, downcast eyes, pearly eyes,
forgettable eyes
Origin: invisibility formula,
psychic blank spot, cursed to fade
away, someone-else’s problem
Strings
Harm
Experience O O O O O
• Add +1 to one of your stats.
• Take another Unseen move.
• Take another Unseen move.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• Take a move from any Skin.
• You become an Urban Legend.
Conditions
Unseen Moves
You get They’re Not There or See
Right Through You, and choose one
more:
• They’re Not There
You are unnoticeable. No one can
see, hear, smell, or otherwise sense
you or anything in your posses-
sion. People will avoid you with
being aware of it. Evidence of your
prescence is also ignored. Cameras
and non-sentient devices can still
record and register you. If you
want to make yourself known, roll
Cold. On a hit, you can interact
with others for one scene. On a
7-9, you stay invisible but can leave
whispers, notes, or small indirect
actions.
• See Right Through You
You are perfectly transparent.
Nothing including cameras can see
you. This only affects your body,
not anything you wear or carry.
You can still be sensed by anything
but sight. Interacting with others
normally may involve wearing
bandages, full covered clothing, or
a mask. If your disguised and your
nature is exposed roll Cold. On a
hit, you can retain self-control and
make a hasty escape. On a 7-9, you
are enraged and embarrassed. All
onlookers get a string on you.
Sex
When you have sex with someone, give up all strings on them.
They develop an uncanny sense for your presence and notice
Move you without rolling. This lasts until either of you have sex with
someone else, or until they harshly ignore you.
o Blackmailer
When you spy on someone in a
private moment, take a string.
When you a spend a string to offer
experience, keep the string if they
refuse.
o Voyeur
You may spend a string on some-
one to insert yourself into any
scene that person is in. When you
gaze into the abyss about someone
you have a string on, spend it in
order to change a miss into a 7-9,
or a 7-9 into a hit.
o Urban Legend
When you do something extreme
in order to attract attention, roll
Volatile. On a hit, mark experience
and treat anyone who is affected
as if you had shut someone down.
On a 7-9, gain the condition Urban
Legend and treat them as if you’d
shut someone down.
o Enemy Unknown
When you are invisible and lash out
physically, add 1 to your roll. Others
take -1 to attempts to lash out
physically at you.
o Fade to Black
You can run away as if rolled a 10
without having to roll, but choose
one:
+ They take a string on you.
+ You take 1 harm.
+ You gain the condition Urban
Legend.