Ghost Stories for Ghosts (Wraith the Oblivion 20th, Orpheus)

[TheSithChicken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogHC70KNco

The Orpheus Group

In The Orpheus Group players take up the role of agents of the aforementioned group. An organization that claims to have cracked open the barrier between the living and the dead. Whether you believed them in the beginning or not you applied because they offered good money and better benefits. You made it through the first round of applications because of your near death experiences. In the next round you learned that the Orpheus Group was everything it claimed and more.

They taught you how to leave your body behind and enter the world of the dead - and you saw that they walked among the living. Some benevolent, some lost, some malevolent, and some so consumed by spite that they did not even seem human. They hired you to investigate the dead. To learn their secrets. They hired you also to investigate the living and find their secrets. They hired you to tear back the veil of death itself.

What's the worst that could happen?

           

Lovecraftian Noir

In this game you will be working for the Orpheus Group taking on missions both for the group itself and for various paying clients. These missions can include intel gathering, investigations, removal of destructive PLEs (Post Life Entities), and other things. If you listen to rumors it can be a whole host of things that would be illegal if the law had caught up with people who can walk through walls or possess people.

Overall the campaign will be touching on Lovecraftian themes of horror and revelations about mankind's place in the order of things. There will be similarities to how Call of Cthulhu and such are run. Revelations that can rock the characters to their core, monstrosities that lie well outside of the human realm and such but humanity will still play a central role in this game. It is not about how hopeless it is to be a human. It is about how humans can adapt and overcome. Hopefully.

Either way you'll get to have cool ghost powers.

           

The Nitty Gritty

This game will be using Wraith 20th Anniversary edition. If you don't have that it's fine. You can still play the game. I'll just have to work with you a bit more before and during the game. All of the initial characters will be living agents of the Orpheus Group with the option of becoming dead over the course of the campaign. While I will draw from current events for the setting I will be using expys or original characters rather than actual real world politicians and the like. Why? Because that could be very divisive and ruin the game. There will still be very dark things going on with the government. It is the World of Darkness after all. This just isn't called Orpheus versus Donald Trump.

I am considering using the RPG Consent Checklist (or at least a version of it) because Orpheus and Wraith can touch on very dark topics and having a handy and easily referenced list would be of great help to me.

So anyone interested? Any questions?

[AndyZ]

Definitely keeping an eye on this

[wander]

You know I'm in! 

On the checklist, I've seen it do the rounds and so I'll just get it out of the way, I'm pretty simple with it:

If things touch on cancer, that's a yellow, please talk to me beforehand as of my own personal experiences with it, then I'd also yellow on Pregnancy/Miscarriage/Abortion, mainly as it's a heavy subject and I'd prefer if anything touches on that it's not flung at me with a 'this is happening now, what do?'. I've had that done to me in rpgs in the past and it derails the fuck out of everything.

Otherwise Greenlighting everything else personally, my character is not me and I'm not my character and this is fiction.

Bring it on!

[Senti]

Could be interested however I am really only familiar with New and old WOD so may be very sketchy also played Cof C quite a bit. I have lots of commitments outside. But interested.

[wander]

Really the thread title should include Orpheus more than Wraith 20.

The system's barebones is old world of darkness, the only thing that Wraith 20's book does is update and errata what was there before, it's still the same system.

I think even those who only have experienced the new world of darkness or chronicles of darkness will be fine, as it's still attribute + skill as a pool of d10s, with the GM choosing the success threshold.

[TheSithChicken]

Sorry. It's been a couple of long days - and not just because politics have made the last 2 days feel like they lasted several years each.

Definitely keeping an eye on this

Noted.

You know I'm in! 

On the checklist, I've seen it do the rounds and so I'll just get it out of the way, I'm pretty simple with it:

If things touch on cancer, that's a yellow, please talk to me beforehand as of my own personal experiences with it, then I'd also yellow on Pregnancy/Miscarriage/Abortion, mainly as it's a heavy subject and I'd prefer if anything touches on that it's not flung at me with a 'this is happening now, what do?'. I've had that done to me in rpgs in the past and it derails the fuck out of everything.

Otherwise Greenlighting everything else personally, my character is not me and I'm not my character and this is fiction.

Bring it on!

Noted and you will never have to worry about me throwing anything pregnancy related at you. I have ...issues with pregnancy and I avoid the subject in general.

Could be interested however I am really only familiar with New and old WOD so may be very sketchy also played Cof C quite a bit. I have lots of commitments outside. But interested.

Basically what wander said to you. This is Old World of Darkness. Orpheus was the limited run game line that took Wraith's place after the end of Wraith. It had fantastic ideas but with some wonky mechanics and strange story constraints. Thankfully all of this has been fixed with Wraith 20th Anniversary!

But, by all means, feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

[TheSithChicken]

Been reading some creepypastas and SCPs that have given me some inspiration for this game.