Response was pretty good to my first MH skin, the Fury, so here’s another one. If this seems completely opaque, go google “Slender Man.” I’m still working on the “how to play this skin” bit, which should help folks who aren’t familiar with the source material.
Originally shared by Topher Gerkey
#monsterhearts #skinning
Completed first draft! An actual playbook version would have some additional formatting tricks and graphical weirdness, but as far as pure text (and of course mechanics) goes, what do you think, sirs and madames?
The Proxy
i can See it sometimes, the staLker or whatever the fuck it is, out there at the Edge of the woods, watching me. always watching with No eyes. stanDing there in that black suit, like a funEral director, but so tall, too tall. what does it want fRom m69742077617320737570706f73656420746f206c65617665206d6520616c6f6e6520616674657220692067617665206974206d79206c6974746c652062726f7468657220616e64206e6f7720697473206261636b20627574206d6179626520697473207374696c6c2068756e67727920692068617665206c6f7473206f6620667269656e6473oMeone please help me, please mAke all this eNd!
NAME
Choose a name:
Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan, Jessie, Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler, Xakk
A familiar name, a modern name, a kid’s name, a unique name
LOOK
Circle one from each list:
Baby face, carrying a camera, clinging briars, gangly, sickly, shifty
Angry eyes, dead eyes, paranoid eyes, sorrowful eyes, veiled eyes
An animal-head mask, a burlap bag with eyeholes, a cheap plastic mask, a comedy or tragedy mask, a Guy Fawkes mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a porcelain mask, stretched pantyhose, a Venetian mask, a wooden tribal mask
ORIGIN
Circle one:
Stalked since childhood, delved too far, created a hoax that became true, student filmmaker, cult member
STATS
Add 1 to one of these:
Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1
YOUR BACKSTORY
You have been recording video footage of everyone without their knowledge. Take one string on everyone.
You have extra footage on your subject. Take two extra strings on that person.
You’ve also been obsessively recording yourself, and someone has discovered and watched some of your footage. That person takes three strings on you.
It starts with five strings on you.
PRⓍXY MOVES
You get this one, and choose two more:
X The Sickness – Choose one character to be your subject. You may change which character is your subject at any time, but you must have no strings on your old subject and at least three strings on your new subject. After the fifth time your subject accepts experience from you when you spend a string, he must use his next advancement to take a Proxy move. This effect can be repeated.
O Am I Interrupting? – You can spend two strings on someone to gain complete access to their home and identity. You have full access to all their social media accounts (e-mail, Twitter, YouTube, G+, etc) and may make irreversible changes to those accounts. You may edit your target’s uploaded videos, inserting scenes, frames, audio, or text, either obviously or subliminally. You may enter their home with sufficient stealth as to record video of them sleeping, without triggering security, being discovered, or leaving accidental traces of your presence.
O The Collective – When you gaze into the abyss, if you roll 10 up, gain a string on your subject and do 1 harm to them. If you roll 7-9, choose one:
~ gain a string on your subject, but It gains a string on you
~ gain a string on your subject, but take 1 harm
~ do 1 harm to your subject, but take 1 harm
~ do 1 harm to your subject, but It gains a string on you.
If you roll 6 or less, It gains a string on you and you take 1 harm.
O Cryptic Bullshit – You can shut someone down with Dark, but only indirectly, through sending them a cryptic written or video message. This can consist of mysterious but meaningful images, phrases written in ciphers, or unknown repeated symbols. Typically if you choose to inflict a condition as a result of shutting someone down via this method, you will choose to give them the condition obsessed to reflect their desperate desire to decode your communications.
O Distortion – Whenever you will it, you cause audiovisual distortion in any photographic, video, or audio recording equipment that is being used on you. Audio distortion may range from slight reverb that leaves your voice recognizable but creepy to severe interference that makes you sound unintelligible or inhuman. Video distortion ranges from mild color changes or wavering to bursts of static that conceal the entire image. Anyone viewing or listening to the distorted images or recordings of you must roll to hold steady; results of 6 or less give the viewer the condition horrified.
O Masky – When you are wearing your mask, others must hold steady before they can attempt to affect you with turn someone on, shut someone down, or lash out physically. If they roll 10 up while rolling hold steady, they may make the second roll as usual. If they roll 7-9, they may make the second roll at -1. If they roll 6 or less, give them the condition hazy memories and they may not attempt the second roll.
O Path of Black Leaves – Unless you allow it, you cannot be run away from. You will always be around the next corner or hiding behind a nearby tree, or alternatively, your victim will find himself repeatedly passing through the same hallways and doors without actually getting anywhere. You may release your victim at any time, but usually not until after some sort of physical or verbal confrontation.
SEX MⓍVE
When you have sex with someone, make them your new subject (even if they don’t meet the criteria), and both of you mark experience. Your new subject‘s experience counts toward triggering The Sickness. Carry 1 forward toward inflicting Harm on your old subject.
DARKEST SELF
You’ve become desperate now – It is closing in, and your mask isn’t working to hide you like it should. 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 (which may leave them dead, alive, memory-wiped, or another Proxy like yourself).
You may only escape your Darkest Self when you have successfully sacrificed someone else in your place, or when your subject catches you on video and prevents you from harming someone.
