I got to play the Reformed in a game, run by Brian Poe. Iwant to talk about a great thing that the other players have served up to me. They have been really hitting on a cool dynamic: they are innocent at heart, and they don’t think my Reformed is. So they serve innocent statements up for me to shoot down, or they put me down for my dark/cruel attitude and I always let it wound me. Really great, exactly what the playbook needs from my fellow players.
Here’s two examples from our first session of play:
I. I contact Lovelace, a Friend in Low Places, specialty: insider info, for something or other. We roleplay it out, I mark Obligation, etc. As we are (flirting and) wrapping it up, the Doomed jumps in and asks Lovelace about his obsession. “Suuuure,” she says. “I can help you with that, if in return…”
I interrupt, “No! No, just, don’t, just deal with me! I’ll handle it. Whatever it is, I’ll do it.” I end up marking Obligation again. The other characters who are looking on the conversation conclude, “oh, the Reformed is trying to keep secrets from us and keep this useful resource away from us”. To my character, though, all he can think is “the Doomed has enough problems, the last thing he needs is to sink into the quagmire of owing all these dangerous, crazy people favors.” Which is SUCH a comic book misunderstanding, and it will certainly drive a lot of events around and around as we go forward!
II. I lashed out at the Transformed during the battle. She gets me back after. So when things calm down, we are trying to support each other. I say “Hey, do you want to blow off steam?” She goes “YEAH! Let’s go get FRAPPUCINOS!!” and I say “NO!! Let’s go throw bricks through a human traffickers car window!! I know where he PARKS!” She got this great, hesitant, fearful look on her face and went “…..yesss???” And it ended up meaning something that she was willing to go along with my petty vandalism, even though it was petty. Maybe even more significant for its pettiness.
So I guess I would say the Reformed is working great for me, Brendan Conway. It’s so dangerous to wake a deep sleeper. 🙂
I LOVE the Doomed example oh man, so great
Just wait until they kill someone to protect a teammate’s life.