Welcome To Santa Mira [Grindhouse Sandbox] [Interest Check]

[Rabbit]

i would like my character to own a house but i am unsure what job i would have.

Does an oversexed hermaphrodite goddess need a job? She could be indecently wealthy or a day-trader. Maybe she invested in bitcoin and got out before the crash. My preference of course is that she'd be an online pornographic streaming cam-star, Joel's favorite channel. But any job could be fun with your character.

[Carly]

i think i might make her a porn cam-star at night for extra cash as well as the park ranger.

So people of the town can be as familiar with her as they like online or in person. i will update my character now

[Sargepepper]

I think Ranger for a Huntress is the best. Lots of alone time, no need for social graces, can rescue random citizens with her knowledge of the forest, old hunters are keenly aware of ecological balance, and it’s easy to pull off a sarong when you don’t gotta be around peeps a lot

Also, saving kids out of the quarry, knowing all of the good fuck spots in the forests, able to commune with fairies for kinky sex or general help, and bonus points for Nekkid showers in waterfalls.

[Rabbit]

i think i might make her a porn cam-star at night for extra cash as well as the park ranger.

So people of the town can be as familiar with her as they like online or in person. i will update my character now

Let's just say ... in that case ... Joel will spend a lot of time locked in his bedroom 😁 and will be the most polite, eager to help fan of your character. He makes killer "the other white meat" BBQ ribs if she's ever hungry. Always plenty because Becky's a vegan and Tish won't eat cooked meat.

[Carly]

i would like to know your family if my character is approved. She is a little extreme but she doesn't have goddess powers anymore.

[Cirus]

Is there room for a swashbuckling adventurer? Fedora, leather and guns cocked?

[Foxy DeVille]

I think I am going to move forward with a Brother/Sister team idea of the science chick and the jock. I'll keep the priest in my pocket though for later.

Mad Scientist:

Victoria "Vikky" DeChamp


Trope: Bad 80's Science Fiction Pulp
Vikky is the quintessential child prodigy. Learned several languages before leaving elementary school, working on her college credits in Middle School, and is currently waiting on graduating Valedictorian at the local University with her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, with a dual minor in Biology and Computer Algorithmic Mathematics, pending her graduation from High School. She chose to stay in high school to make sure she was well adjusted to society before leaving, but to anyone else, she's definitely got work to do on that regard. Her parents are Peter DeChamp, CEO of DeChamp Enterprises, one of the most well-known corporations on the face of the earth, and her mother is its lead researcher. As a result, her parents are mostly gone nearly all of the time, though a simple call can get her most anything she or her brother Brick needs.

She's a Senior at Hometown High, where the administration has utterly given up at restricting her access to it's developed labs and science thingamabobs (half of it has been designed and requested by her and paid for by her parents in donations) since she just finds a way to get in anyway. She's brilliant, but her application of science toward common problems can be a bit overcompensated. Things like her Automatic Cookinator (a laser that automatically cooks her cook instantly, which somehow managed to set water on fire), her Community Brilliance Solution (Hey, that gas only turned them into zombies temporarily and everyone got better!), and her Acoustic Mega Booster (the next town over still hasn't recovered all of their broken windows).

However, while she's overeager to apply her skills, she's bashful and innocent around new people unless she's talking about her passions, which she will quickly ramble off into nearly unintelligible jargon that loses nearly everyone. And while she may strike out on successfully asking her crushes out (last one needed to be institutionalized due to the shock of the potion she created), she generally comes through for her friends and the town when she is needed. The Alien Invasion of the Scalies (what she calls them) wouldn't have been repled if she hadn't helped and determined their mothership (She did confiscate all of the plasma weapons for further study though).


The Jock:

Marcus "Brick" DeChamp


Trope: 80's Slasher Films, Pulp Fictions
Marcus is more formally known by his given team name of Brick around the school and town. He's not the smartest cookie like his sister, much to the constant chagrin of his consistently absent parents, but what he lacks in brains, he makes up for in power and physical ability. That's mostly displayed on the track and field, where he is a lynchpin in most of Hometown High's sports teams, but he's come in very handy when the town has come under some kind of turmoil. In some ways, his lack of critical thought seems to help in these situations, as where most people went insane when the Old Gods started to break through a sudden rift, Brick simply just socked one in the face and pushed it back into the portal. He was quoted for the paper as saying "It just looked like a face that needed punching."

He's looking forward to university, but after living with and helping support his sister for so long, it's a large step to be separated from her since their parents have been gone on business for so long. He won't admit it, but Vikky is 100% his soft spot, defending her to the very last. He's a good guy just trying to do the right thing under the layers of his ignorance, but his anger gets the better of him and gets him into trouble quite often. Mostly for the right reasons.

He's a local hero, having fought toe to toe with essentially anything that has stepped foot in the town and has garnered a little bit of a reputation as being as tough to kill as his nickname. He just seems to get back up from almost any wound and keep going with a winning smile, which is perfect for the local newspaper for either standing atop the dead eldritch creatures he fought off, or crossing across the goal line to win the championship game.

Hee hee... "Hometown High." That's official now. They're great.

i modified my character a little

I like the character and how you've incorporated her into the town. But you don't need to say she's from a porn because she's not especially porn-y and again porn isn't grindhouse. Sure it's a thin line between hard-R sexploitation movies and actual porn but it is there and I want to keep this in the tropes of drive-in's and late-night cable. You don't have to change anything about the character, you just don't need to say she's from a porn. She sounds more like something out of a low budget sword-and-sorcery flick like Amazons anyway.

Sounds fun. I'll have to work up a few character concepts. Maybe a nice salt-of-the-earth Santa Mira family.

Sergeant Joel “Cannibal” Carpio is a deputy with the Santa Mira Sheriff Department. Born and raised in Santa Mira, he loves the city and is tough on out of town criminals. He is not a cannibal. I mean, he knows trivia. Girls taste better than men. Older folk are just naturally tougher, and you’d probably want to go with a pressure cooker. Fatties have more flavor. But here’s the thing. Everyone in Santa Mira knows that Joel’s a problem solver. Your elderly grandparent can’t paint their house and the yards getting overgrown? Joel will pull a couple of drunks or gangbangers out of the cell and run by on a Saturday to take care of the problem. Vagrants hanging around. Joel will run them out of town and be back picking his teeth before you know it. Problem’s solved. He’s good people and he cares about the property-owning citizens of Santa Mira. Sure, there’s been a few allegations against him. If you try to come into town and mess with the citizens, there will be consequences.

Joel’s eighteen-year-old daughter Becky? She’s a sweet Christian girl. Co-Captain of the Santa Mira High School cheer squad. Decent grades and she’s got a brown belt in Juijitsu and a black belt in Karate. Been studying both since she was a little tike. Joel’s taught her to shoot and she’s got medals for marksmanship. Not a serial killer! When you shoot three patched bikers at one time in self-defense, that is not serial killing, even if you did track down the other two who raped her friend and shoot them down in self defense two weeks later. That’s still not a serial killer. The FBI is very clear that there must be a month between killings with an emotional cooling off period. Becky shot those five in a two-week period and the grand jury cleared her. Oh, there's always rumors about other deaths, but nothing verifiable. Also, this is important, keep in mind that all the folk who are alleged to have been killed by Becky came to Santa Mira within the last five years, practically strangers. None were decent, property owning, God fearing Santa Mira folk.

Joel’s wife and Becky’s mom Tish? Salt-of-the-Earth. Not a zombie, they just keep her chained in the basement because of some mental health issues. She has good days. Allergic to cooked meat and vegetable matter, but you know there are more allergies these days than there used to be. Okay, she is non-verbal unless you count growling, but she still looks cute in a bikini. That zombie stuff is just rumors. You know how cruel kids and gossips can be.

Oh good. A nice normal family. Santa Mira has a lot to offer with it's affordable housing and excellent schools. These fine folks are a great example for new residents.

This is my second group game and I hesitated, but it sounds like so much fun. I will say if "too comedic" is an issue, I might have crossed the line.

Nah, the appeal of b-movies is that they're campy fun. Some are hilarious even when they didn't intend to be. Tossing all that into one town creates an even greater comedic vibe. Not that everything in Santa Mira should be ha-ha or that people should feel like they're required to be funny, the absurdity of the situation already does a lot of the heavy lifting. 

Is there room for a swashbuckling adventurer? Fedora, leather and guns cocked?

I'd have to hear more. Right now that sound like something more out of the movie serials days.

[Capone]

If anyone wants their character to have a job as a bartender or waiter/waitress at The Bottom of the Gunbarrel, I'd be open to them having such a role. I mean, everyone needs a day job, right?

[Rabbit]

A nice normal family. Santa Mira has a lot to offer with it's affordable housing and excellent schools. These fine folks are a great example for new residents.

Joel smiled. "That's what I like about living in Santa Mira. We give people a chance and we don't get all up in your personal business like they do in some small towns." Glancing outside, he frowns and shouts to the living room where Becky is watching One Punch Man. "Did you let mom outside? She's chasing the neighbor's dog again."

"I'll get her dad," Becky calls back as she runs outside.

Lol, sorry, just eager to write

[ApesAmongUs]

So, he's my idea.  I saw that some people were putting together a few related characters. Should I also include a pic and description of Harry's secretary?  She's definitely an important element of his character.

Name:  Harry Chandler, PI
Trope:  Gumshoe out of his element and knee deep in bad habits.

   So, how did a guy like me end up in a Podunk town like this?  Easy.  Some bigwig lost his daughter and wanted me to bring her back.  She was kidnapped by some gangbanger on bath salts, but no ransom note.  This smelled a little funny to me; after all, even a low-life expects tpo get paid at some point.  Turns out his little angel was banging the "kidnapper" and they'd run off together.  Oh yea, and he was a werewolf.  But what do you expect these days?
   
   Eventually tracked them down to this grease spot on the map and tried to convince her to come back.  She was a swell kid, but her squeeze was a piece of work.  A werewolf is one thing, but her Pops wasn't entirely wrong.  The punk was running a meth lab.  She was real grateful after I pulled her out of that shitshow.  Even offered to give me head to not tell her father all the sorted details.  I thought about it too, but by that point wolfie had already turned her.  No matter how tempting the package, some things are too risky.
   
   So, I hauled her back to her Beverly Hills mansion and collected daddy's money.  And, naa, if you're wonderin', I didn't tell him.  None of my business really; he wasn't payin' me for information.  And she had asked nicely.  Sure, the blowjob was out of the question, but there's no teeth in anal.  If anything, this broad was made for doggy-style.

   But, as dull as this town is, maybe I need a little dull.  The big city was getting to me.  I'd started thinking methhead werewolves weren't that unusual.  I decided it might be worth it to set out my shingle here for a while.  Even found a damn good secretary so long as she doesn't expect to be paid regular-like.

[Carly]

removed the porn film character reference from my character description

[Carly]

My character is looking forward to those pork bbq ribs rabbit !

[Sargepepper]

Hope everyone is doing okay :)

[ApesAmongUs]

What a subtle way of asking if anyone is still interested in the game.  Been wondering the same myself.

[Sargepepper]

While, yeah, it’s an ask if the game is still active, at the end of the day, it’s just a game. I’d much rather know if life ate people or if they are not doing so hot as opposed to the status of a game :)

[Rabbit]

Despite creating both a zombie and a cannibal character (not to mention a serial killer), I'm still uneaten.  Beautiful weather where I live, sunny and warm. Going to spend the fourth at the beach as no work for me. Yay! Made killer tortilla soup last night with tons of yummy leftovers. And still looking forward to this game if we can sequester five or six active players.

[Capone]

Heat is the most likely culprit of any vore-related activities. Though my 4th looks to be littered with thunderstorms, so no outdoor grilling or beach for me. Just nature's fireworks.

[Haibane]

Lovely idea, this sounds like a huge shedload of fun.

Would a Men In Black type agent (or organisation behind him) work here? The Agency may or may not be very competent or effective, it just seems like the kind of place that sort of organisation might send agents to check things out.

[Carly]

 Haibane i most certainly think it would suit this game !

[Foxy DeVille]

Lovely idea, this sounds like a huge shedload of fun.

Would a Men In Black type agent (or organisation behind him) work here? The Agency may or may not be very competent or effective, it just seems like the kind of place that sort of organisation might send agents to check things out.

Sure! Shady government types are a sci-fi staple, both good and bad.

[ApesAmongUs]

We've got a Sheriff and a PI, so a Fed rounds out the Crime Fighting trifecta of getting in each other's way.  The drama writes itself and my PI can avoid a hassle by getting you two arguing over jurisdiction.

[Athem]

Room for someone the cops might want to investigate?

Pandora

Pandora is not her real name, but it's the one she's used ever since she rode into town on her bike. She works in cash, and is clearly hiding her past. Trouble tends to follow her around; the last guy to grope her in a bar got a knee rammed hard into his groin and a stiletto heel jabbed into his stomach. Is her chosen name in any way symbolic? And why is she in town?

Basically, a more modern version of a Russ Meyer character: brash, challenging and (over)confident, and able to turn violent in an instant. Also, for the sake of comedy, the one most likely to end up splattered with gore or slime, lose articles of clothing in a fight, or be the victim of the mad scientist's latest toy.