Category: Monsterhearts

Livin the Blackwood Nightmare 

We (Regine Bernhardt Markus Wagner Philipp Neitzel  and Sascha Müller) are starting a game of Monsterhearts! Hooray. 

Last session we got together to set up the town and area the game is set in (as well as talk about the content we are comfortable with and triggers)

We used the setting question by Richard Williams.

The game is set on the fictional Island of Blackwood, close to Cape Disappointment.  Blackwood is mostly a tourist town with people coming for health tourism, business conferences/workshops and for whale watching. Besides the tourism industry there isn’t much going on though. Mostly fishing. Most kids leave right after finishing Blackwood High but most come back after they are done studying so this town is missing the whole college population, making the graduating class in school the coolest kids in town. 

Important locations are

The Old Lighthouse – make out point or party location

The two beaches (one is privately owned by some tourism people, the other is far away and not as cool) 

The harbor wall – as the main meeting place and lounging about area for teens

The not fully named ice caffe – main place for “first dates” and stuff like that. Owned by my characters family. 

A main inspiration for Blackwood was Lovecraft from the Locke & Key comic 

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There is a lot of diversity on the island because a lot of the tourism people that developed Blackwood are not white. There are no native americans on the island though, that is one of the reasons settlers settled on this island originally. Natives always stayed clear of the island because of a curse or something like that. 

You need to take a ferry to the main land, it takes about 45ish minutes. The ferry owners are an important and rich family in the town. 

Once a year there is the whale festival and that is a big deal. 

Blackwood High is “ruled” by the 

Columbia River Society for gifted young Scholars 

a study group/elite type of deal. Set up by the ancient Blackwood they get a lot of founding and only the really rich AND intelligent/dilligent students can enter. They are the upper class of students because they can regulary get out of Blackwood and bring back contraband and stuff. They go to state and nation wide contests and stuff. 

The Drama Group all got killed in a ferry accident about half a year ago. 

Up there also are the jocks and cheerleaders (Go Orcas Go!) who think they are on top because that is what society and media tells you. 

There is a local circle of witches that are pissed off because they built a basketball court/hall directly on their ancient ritual ground. 

other groups within Blackwood High are the Emos+Goths, Student Newspapers, EcoFriendlies and then the lower class children of fisherman providing the white trash and the children of newcomers (many of them not white) that are the up coming class. 

We talked a bit about the characters we want to play and we have

A Queen that leads a StraightEdge clique that all look highly androgynous and can be rather violent. Played by Philipp Neitzel 

A Selkie curious about humanity. Played by Markus Wagner 

An Infernal whose Dark Power is her mother who died last year. She communicates with her with the dairy she got when she tried to get over the trauma. Played by Regine Bernhardt  

A freshly (vampire) bitten cheerleader (not that kind of cheerleader) that just got over a break up. Played by me. 

If I forgot anything, please add. 

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