Started a MotW game with my family. We mainly handled character building. Game is set in the late 1990s in Austin. Wife is playing the Crooked named Ell, son is playing a 74 yr. old flake named Bulder, and daughter is playing a divine named Lotus.
Made the mistake of thinking too much about my first mystery though and think it’s overly complicated for the group. My wife is taking notes and is interested, my son’s curiosity is peaked, but my little girl is lost and is a long for the ride. Sometimes, I just need to remember that a bug hunt can be a bug hunt.
Instead, they’ve seen what appear to be three wolf attacks one occurring on the last full moon, another this full moon, and the last just the night before not during a full moon. It occurs that there is a werewolf, but the real man behind the curtain is an old taxidermist turned wolfbanner (i.e. wolf charmer). He is using wolf-banns to incite the attacks on a group of people who harmed his granddaughter.
So this may go to waste as far as a super cool unfolding mystery, but at least the wife and kids all want to still play again!
Huh. I’m planning a series of three Divine Blood games this August with a similar plot in the first mission. Apparent werewolf with a twist.