My name is Martin and I am going to play a riff on Rafa, he is a recurring character from a private game of ours, and has been around for a little while and the city of mist are now he is a young man. Mainly on his everyday life. He is a software developer, he works with it mainly with security. He has worked at quite large corporations, but has now gone freelance. And his day job is kind of ironic to his, like jobs would be saying he is a member of a hacktivist group. So they extort large corporations who have engaged in dubious activities with ransomware with data theft, and they don't really want money out of it, they want the companies to do the right thing. So they're kind of an NGO, if we get painted like that, but they are a hacktivist group. And he has a mythos of the minor Thor, from the minor Taurus from the Greek legend of the monitors and the labyrinth. So he has two powers he has once he has the strength of a ball. So it's kind of his Bastion, he can step into this, this this force and then manifested and use it in combat or in some specific situations. But the other cool power does that he has a cool ability is the monitors Labyrinth, which he kind of makes a building or a region is Labyrinth and can then change the layout and change and disorient the people that are that are in there. So he has some neat tricks. He is a cool guy are generally a bit but he does have a serious side sometimes. When you say yes to powers, do you mean he has two mithilfe cards? No, no, he has. He has one method. But he has two power cards.
Iona Starling:So like almost like an aspirin court is obviously massive. Not nascent. Yeah.
Unknown:Yeah, it's it's that he has two two logos and two myths.
Iona Starling:Yeah, so um, Hi. My name is Avery and I play the character. I own a Starling. I don't know. Her brother Tovia to older brother, or four to the wealthy is on the decline. Starling family struggling family in the USA based VA health care system and they were a business dealing in health care. But there was some shady things behind the scenes that neither siblings were quite aware of don't do, despite coming from his family was an incredibly bright, kind and charismatic person. Oh, very good. Always desire to help people no matter what. I don't know though. In comparison, she was. She's darker. more pessimistic crueller. She's, if he's the idealistic ideas behind helping people she's the reality, the gritty, hard world that the hard things that need to be done. She generally views herself as a guardian. As a person who will protect those who can help others who will get her hands dirty to pave the path for others to do the right thing. So a very supportive character right. So her logo says she's a bodyguard. She works under her brother. And he essentially is assigned to whoever needs her protection the most at the time. Right target for another company, say up activist who might be useful to her brother, Mike. Um Don't get me wrong, though she does have her own goals and desires. But ultimately for her everything comes back to her love and idealisation of of her brother. But one night, an assassination attempt happened and her missiles got revealed quite violently when she woke up, and she saw quite a mess left behind her. It turns out that she has the shattered dragon mythos from dungeons of dragons, specifically one called blight. And it's it's not a nice mythos. It's very violent, very greedy, very angry, kind of an anti thesis, to Tovia and in turn his own missiles, because she realises that night when she awakens, that he was a rift like her. Afterwards, though, she doesn't view these powers as something to avoid. She thinks that if she can learn to control it, and she can learn where it comes from, she can conquer all this evil and use its power for good. So she's not running from it. She's trying to understand it and control it. But of course, that comes with the inherent risk of allowing the missiles increasingly in her life, and therefore its own agenda. Ultimately, I Oh, no strikes of the very, as a serious if snarky person is pretty much business. But she has that heart of gold, and will do what she needs to protect the good in the city, and those who need protection
Snyders Return:are fine. Thank you, Iona. And I last a member of the crew, please.
Dr. Henry Edwards:My name is Chris and I will be playing Dr. Henry Edwards. Henry Edwards is a complicated and yet simple individual. He is the head of research at helix labs, which is it's sort of a villain faction for city of mist is well aware that the company is, shall we say, less than idealistic. And he doesn't really care. He is not so much an immoral character as he is an amoral one. His greatest goal is to make a difference through his research, as a sleeper, found himself one day compared compelled in the direction of researching a specific formula. And he wasn't sure why this compulsion took him. But when it did, and the more down this research rabbit hole he went, the less sense it made, because chemically the formula makes very little sense. It shouldn't do anything. But it became apparent that he had discovered a formula that allowed him to change his form. He is a riff of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and he also has two logos cards and two mythos cards. One being Dr. jackals, eponymous formula which I have called the serum and is fascinated with the A world that has opened up to him since he became a ref. Suddenly, leftist, right up is down. And while he was completely obsessed with his work, he is becoming increasingly obsessed with this new world that doesn't obey the rules and expectations he has learned to have for the world in general.
Iona Starling:What does that mean when the mythos comes from an external source? And not like? Did it like activated serum, activate him the serum or story wise.
Dr. Henry Edwards:He just found himself compelled to create this formula. It came to him not in a dream or a vision, but as this nagging impulse to just create. Yeah, like, yeah, so it is it isn't.
Rafa:It's kind of a compliment. You can use objects like the holy grail or Excalibur as a source of power. So it's kind of the same thing. And if he if he can, was kind of compelled by the mist for doing the, the formula, then it's kind of it's also a manifestation of the power of the mist itself.
Iona Starling:It's like, it's like he was channelling Dr. Jekyll right. And through through Dr. Jekyll he made Mr. hat. Yeah. Okay.
Unknown:All right. Yeah.
Snyders Return:All right. So now we have a little bit of background about about yourselves and and the characters you're making. Characters are great, but we really need to tie them together as a crew and one of the through lines there. We have a look at Trump the the creating of a crew seems to be the shall we say the the medical element to a certain extent the freelancer can can potentially tie in as a requirement to service the idea of many of these these establishments and and network structures.
Unknown:Okay. Your character she is quite new to the powers, right?
Iona Starling:Yeah, it's only been like a year I'd say.
Unknown:Okay, and for Dr. Edwards, how long has he been in power? or less? Do he has control over it? Or is he still figuring it out?
Dr. Henry Edwards:Um, you use and say he's had it for maybe a few years. Initially, he was sceptical of what was happening, but as is the nature of his methods, he has sort of become increasingly addicted to the powers the CRM gives him. He just finds himself resolving any problem by taking the CRM and he sort of even
Unknown:a borderline addict, by the it's not so borderline, and it's not that it's even like it's not like it's cocaine or it makes them feel really good. But yeah, for some reason, he just feels compelled to take the serum essentially, whenever any problem needs solving whether you would normally need the serums help or not. Okay, I
Iona Starling:like this idea of us having interrogate someone and like we're trying to say you know, this guy's been through a lot he's he's he's still a kid. He's kind of traumatised and doctrine words just like throws back the serum and goes bursting into the doors. Dr. Hyde like just full crazy like that. So obviously works for her brother, Toby Tobia works in the medical industry. He's a businessman. But obviously his goal isn't, you know, it isn't business. It isn't money. It's to use his company to help as many people as possible his missiles, is we agreed on this. It's Japanese dwarf gone. To think of some kind
Snyders Return:of healing and yeah, so will you be playing your brother too? Or is it just a character in our story? I will use makes it sound really terrible when I say it this way, but I will use Tobia to challenge inspire and help navigate Iona through her particular story arcs.
Iona Starling:Yeah, um, yeah, I was I was thinking, yeah, it was I was having the same thought because I was thinking the book does say, you know, you can play your secondary character, but I was like, since COVID is like defining relationship. I feel like it'd be really weird to have long scenes, or it's just me talking back and forth with my
Snyders Return:Yes. Yeah. All I'll be using Tobia as we've spoken about before owner to to use as as a through line for plot. If you're happy and I will put the spelling in the discord chat, Tobia will work for slash sort of be the representative of panda Lauria health club. Panda Lauria health care clinics. I mean, um, yeah.
Iona Starling:So I don't think it can be a bug for example, working with even a company like helix or downright evil if, and only if there's something to be gained by it. He he did learn that lesson from Iona. So if there's a good enough reason for, to have a connection with, with helix labs, that's how, for example, Iona and Edwards could connect to that, especially since Edwards and Iona seem to have a shared desire to find out more about the power and how exactly to understand it and control it. Right, we do have that shared goal there.
Unknown:I could fill that gap, maybe because I believe that RAF will have been around for a while with his powers. And has he had a he had a crew before and he had experience on he still has as an activist and kind of more or less dangerous people with people that are kind of uncontrollable, but he has this compassion with as kind of a mentor that he could especially UI on it to kind of take you under his wing and show you a little bit of the way of the mists or the quirks I could see myself doing that maybe we can kind of be a partners, since you don't really care about the company and I am more or less company enemy. Maybe I can use your we can kind of be partners in getting information or something like that.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I think the panda Laurie helix connection makes a lot of sense. I kind of imagine Dr. Edwards might have a bit of a more adversarial relationship with Raph just because one is an older gentleman and is not fond of the idea that you know, someone knows more than him. His whole business and focus in life revolves around knowing as much as possible. Okay.
Snyders Return:If I may interject at that point then offer some background knowledge that definitely Dr. Edwards would no doctorate would would know that panda Lauria healthcare is owned, technically by helix lab and comes under the Leyland foundation. So Leyland foundation is like the father company that the top level company that owns both helix lab who you work for Dr. Edwards, and runs panda Lauria healthcare clinic. Because the public facing healthcare, who Tobia could work for Yeah. Yeah. So Toby would know people in panda Lauria, um know that chain and that easily steps across to you Dr. Edwards could you would know the helix lab hierarchy and how it steps across into panda Lauria. So there's there's easy steps between the two for that
Unknown:we can have at least Edwards and Ralph can have kind of a professional or a mutual understanding and a professional relationship.
Iona Starling:Yeah, imagine that, for example, Ayana might bring in Rafa if if she and cobia suspects that helix is up to no good and they decide to put that like put a target on its back and see you know, can we can we fix these issues? She might bring him in for example to to try and get close into those systems and and hack it because you said RAF is an enemy right? Like like raffles always considered he likes a bit of an enemy, right? Because it's really
Unknown:not that I have that he would have like a specific enemy, but if he does find out that company is shady, he would have no problem investigating it.
Iona Starling:So I feel like maybe that could happen and they could bring in For example, I don't know could you know Rafa teaches I don't know about the mist but in turn Iona kinds of seeds herself. She sees that Rafa could be you know, a target if they were to find out. I on Toby has plans, their their suspicions their little investigation there. So she might decide, okay, I can I can protect this dude. You know, she's, you know, I'm not saying Rafa can't protect himself, but that's just her goal. Right? That's,
Unknown:that's, that's what she does. Now. It's great if you have some interest of your own.
Iona Starling:Yeah. And so then what could happen is at the same time she's good at one of her abilities is actually sensing fears. Right, she has that control over people's fears. So if she sees some of that doubt, I don't think he has doubt in like the morality of the company. But if he feels constrained by it, or it's clear that his goals don't align with helix, but they're kind of more aligned with her own which is find out more you might feel like she's in an in to helix right like maybe she could use the most she could she could use him right if she can offer him a chance to find out whatever helix is hiding or find out more about this world right?
Unknown:I personally think I get the guest or the just yeah, I think it's it's it's a good idea
Iona Starling:which might explain like a closer connection right like why why why
Dr. Henry Edwards:the good doctor the good doctor of course they're air quotes around fat good sort of maybe okay doctor
Unknown:Well, Chris as you kind of already know rough he will probably just call Edwards like Doctor Hey Doc what's up
Snyders Return:so putting this into a theme card as soon as we are sort of working on that on your on your sheets so are you what kind of crew are you are you'd like casual detectives you sound much more wild it's down to you to decide what kind of sort of crew you want to be conspiracy busters seems to tie in devil is in the midst there's there's a couple of options. options open to
Iona Starling:I'm not sure like what raffle. Rafa Rafa Rafa would gain from this like, what's his desire with with Iona or the doctor? Like, like,
Unknown:personally, it's if I find some I like justice. I like that when companies and do the right thing. That's why I become became an activist and the first place but that kind of in a professional more or less kind of way. But if I see, I believe that that graph is going to be is a very empathetic guy and like I said, he is kind of a mentor or he kind of he likes people a lot and he likes guiding people. So if I take you or I honour, he sees that he that he has a lot of potential and that she is struggling, kind of with her powers. I could see him get getting kind of an attachment or kind of drawn to hurt with this, this desire to help this desire to to help her get control and help her understand what's going on.
Snyders Return:Yeah. How old is rougher? Yeah. How old is he?
Unknown:By this time he isn't really old. So he would be like, I don't know, between 2028 and 30. Like, he's he's a young adult still.
Iona Starling:I'm thinking, I don't know. There's just like, like, just out of teenagers like, like, 23. Yeah. No, that'd be fine. I guess then probably the best idea would be, I guess, I don't know in word for would have that that side idea of, you know, finding out what up is up with helix and eventually maybe trying to get the good, maybe sort of NACA doctor on their side about it. But for now, I think probably what draws the three of us together the most would be dabblers in the midst.
Unknown:Yeah, if Chris agrees of for wanting to collaborate with us, because of his powers. I think that's the that's the best. Yeah, one of the best thing. I believe that we are conspiracy busters and dabblers in the midst would be to that kind of would work? Yeah,
Snyders Return:I'd say listening to you narrow, narrow it down. The other one either works and both work as well as the other. It depends just how you want to be referred on you're cruising effectively. Yeah.
Unknown:Crew tags a little. Yeah. Yeah. Chris, can you just kind of repeat what is your your overall? What's the thing you're searching for? Or what's your goal? Just understand,
Dr. Henry Edwards:the character was initially sort of obsessive workaholic and is currently struggling with that instinct. And this compulsion to fall headfirst down the rabbit hole of his mythos and see exactly what the possibilities allow it, none of it is really anything more than selfishness on his part, he wants to know more, to understand the world and essentially control it. So
Iona Starling:say, like, he want, like, he has a desire for power, is our saying or just like, understand it in such a way that he can manipulate it through sciences and stuff like that.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Um, I wouldn't say that his conscious goal is to acquire power, I would say that he, in being compelled to create this formula, which should not work, chemically speaking, he has come into power. And that has sort of changed his the nature of his fundamental curiosity about how the world works. He was initially obsessed with just knowing how the laws of nature worked and how the human body works. And now it is more sort of learning everything he can to continue pushing this agenda of exploring what he's capable of.
Unknown:I could see kind of Raph being I would tend to be dabblers in the midst now. Because Raph could kind of be the very annoying guy who goes up to Dr. Edwards and gives him the chance kind of recruits him of being this this kind of mystic detective that gives the doctor the chance of using his mythos being also kind of getting the the extra effect that the doctor is very likely a very, very smart guy and can help with investigations and being interested in mists and some something like that we can have some, these dis mystical investigations going quite successfully. And on the other hand, I can being having Dr. Edwards around. You can kind of scout him and keep him or try to have him not to corrupt his own power. Just looking over it.
Iona Starling:We'll think he actually the exact same thing I think I don't know would be drawn to him. Because she probably of all the employees, right, he probably sticks out the most as a person who could be. He doesn't have any personal loyalties probably to helix labs. Right? He's, his fears aren't about getting found out or anything like that. He just, I guess his biggest fear would be not knowing, right?
Dr. Henry Edwards:I wouldn't say he has any loyalty to helix labs. It's more that as the head of r&d, he's kind of like the king of the castle. Right? So he has spent his working life getting to this position that allows him to pursue his own agenda. and protecting that is kind of its own motivation. One of his logos cards is a turf card, labelled welcome Felix lab. So he is very much that is sort of a seat of his metaphorical power in his regular life.
Iona Starling:So he essentially it's not like a personal emotional loyalty. It's the fact that the position is very powerful, and it can get him what he wants. Right. So he's not, he's not willing to give it Okay, that's fine, then Yeah, I agree with with Martin, I think the best idea would be the new dabblers invest. But jumping forward a bit, I think what an interesting weakness could be for us might be something like different agendas. Because while necessarily there are some lines where we have that overarching curiosity there that desire to learn Edwards goals don't align with ion or Rafa and I don't know of course, still, ultimately, for now, for now, we have character we catch development is her loyalty to her brother. Right. So I think that just might be I just think that might be an interesting weakness, for example,
Unknown:would Edwards be kind of drawn to rough if I came to you, giving you the, the possibilities of using your, your powers and kind of Yeah, like use it in investigations or dabbling with Mr. Phares?
Dr. Henry Edwards:I have a feeling that Dr. Edwards would have a sort of detached interest in Rafa sort of like as a subject mostly interested in seeing, you know, how his powers differ from the doctors where they come from, why this very powerful and knowledgeable doctor and this at least by Edwards standard, irresponsible kids were given, these powers probably be quite irritated by even the knowledge that Raph has powers on the same level as him would probably get under his skin on a certain level because he he has probably assumed up until this point that he was worthy and deserving and it was all this hard work and research that got him these powers and to find that this kid essentially just kind of got them out of nowhere would drive him up the wall. I already love our our chemistry. I'm so yeah.
Iona Starling:So maybe if I know you have a disinterest, but if Rafa can directly say I have experienced I might be able to provide you some information. would would Edwards be more interested in that? If he can't, can refer to that. Does he have anything to lean against like that?
Unknown:I think that Chris already said that he would have kind of detached interest. So he would at least be somehow interested this in keeping an eye on him. I think that's good enough.
Dr. Henry Edwards:It would be more of an ally of convenience relationship, then. Personal attachment. Yeah, definitely be interested in examining Iona and Rafa's. Matthaus and their connection and even using them as tools to further his own investigation of other subjects.
Unknown:That's good enough for me. You'd make a horrific avatar up.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Let's see. This is probably my second favourite character I've ever made for this. First was a agoraphobic horror author who was tormented by his mythos of the thing that goes bump in the night. Oh, Jesus forgot his mythos essentially played on his fear of essentially everything to spread and so terror, its only agenda was to create as much fear as possible. This one is a bit. I don't have a motivation for his mythos yet, but okay, you
Snyders Return:want one soon enough? Yeah, we
Unknown:have played with Chris before and his previous character was amazing. Also, I am very happy that you're here again.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I'm very happy to be here, too. I I'm a sucker for role playing, and I need more of it in my life.
Snyders Return:Well, let's turn all these good feelings into into a crew theme card. So we have some refer to I guess, it would be best. If we all agree on that. You can come up with a different name for it. But that's that's definitely a framework to come from.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I like alliteration. So how about mystical medlars? Sure, folks, for me.
Iona Starling:We are all a bunch of people drawn vaguely grudgingly, together, the best group dynamic. You don't have to work with each other. But we kind of do. Like grudging coworkers, which is actually a fun dynamic to play with. We're not gonna lie. Like I kind of like starting from just bare bones situation right? We don't really know each other personally and then that grows because if it's if you have personal relations already, I don't know it's it's it's a bit weird or that. You don't have to pretend to know a character that you don't know.
Unknown:Yeah, no. Yeah, exactly. Can we can we make our base like Edwards's office or lab because I could totally see Raph just kind of waltzing into his office, being like, what's up doctor, and I hacked the front door again, and I'm here for let's let's do this or that and Iona kind of tags along
Dr. Henry Edwards:to the soundtrack of the doctors teeth grinding? Exactly.
Snyders Return:If you're happy for me to offer a suggestion, the doctor would potentially being head of r&d, and one of the many sort of big doctors may not necessarily want you waltzing into helix labs, heavily guarded, fortified. main base of operations in the industrials sort of District, however, the doctor would have access to any number of test sites and test facilities squirrelled away in the various suburbs. So you can pick anywhere across the city to have a test lab that is specifically for the doctor and his experiments that you could use as a sort of hub of opera.
Iona Starling:Wherever is closest to I guess, I guess, you know, keeping with my own admission, she would specifically ask for a place anywhere close to where her brother lives slash works. So wherever that is up.
Unknown:I'm looking at your house I don't know. How are you? Which I've got I need to know that.
Snyders Return:I need to be in the blue collar district though. Given your money. That's unlikely. Probably in suburbia or Old Town maybe.
Iona Starling:Yeah, I don't know. I'd imagine it's suburbia area, like between thinking is cuz, you know, despite money, Iona both both siblings actually don't care so much about, you know, how nice their houses is, as is how close it is it to their current mission. So if they're, if they're working for panda Lauria Health Care Clinic right now, they probably be close to wherever it is, if there's a new place to live close to it.
Snyders Return:Well, I would recommend if helix Labs is based in the industrial zone, which two out of the three of you And it could be somewhere like Trinity Ark just up there somewhere on that main line because it gives you access to anywhere in the city again that's a suggestion Feel free to so choose somewhere else cross an entire city are personally could see that lab would be in shadow Hill just because of the name just want that ecstatic you know this that
Dr. Henry Edwards:I kind of like the Old Quarter as a location. But that's mostly because you know Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde hmm I like the idea that it's an old Edwardian brownstone or something like that, but the secret lab underneath.
Snyders Return:Okay, that sounds cool and kind of fits in with the doctor who technically owns it. I only mentioned you could live in, say the trente arc area greenparks I'm like that. Rafa, where are you floating around?
Unknown:I kind of want to say Little Tokyo just because he's kind of still a geek deep inside. He he did do cosplay back in the day. But I I don't, I don't really care so much. I would say Little Tokyo as my kind of my home as my base. Okay, because that's also really central. But I could as well live in the university, because it's affordable and their students and I can kind of hide between everybody. A Little Tokyo pointe shoes, the spider in the middle of the web.
Snyders Return:Yeah, yeah. If you look at the map in that respect, yeah.
Unknown:But will it do kind of a different story wise? Or is it more just a fact?
Snyders Return:It's more more flavour and effect. But it could come of import later.
Unknown:Should I twist? I will say that Raph would be stationed in Little Tokyo just because of kind of his his geek kind of attachments and because of the food. That's that's mainly it. And because it's in the middle of the town, he probably has good internet and good transportations everywhere. So yeah, that's good.
Iona Starling:If Edwards lives in the Old Quarter, and Tokyo, Little Tokyo, and then New York and Green Park, which is all varying distances away from the science hub down here. Probably the best place for us to have like a secret little testing place might be somewhere around the riverside or Central. That's kind of the central point between where we all live. But, I mean, the biggest thing would be, I guess, yeah, I think I think that might be best if we want to try and put it even between all three of us. But I'm, I mean, we don't necessarily have to have it all, even between three of us we have like, you know, somewhere all the way down in downtown, I'm just thinking we might want to avoid the busy parts.
Unknown:Adam, we gave you our locations, you can pick our base. So we have one of each.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I'm just thinking it also makes sense that you know, whatever locations we pack are presumably places we would have some kind of insight into as to like what's going on what local events are, so it makes a lot of sense to spread ourselves out instead of clumping up in one place.
Snyders Return:So a doctorate was you can easily have your own personal personal personal private lab in your own home in your in the Old Quarter those those I would say is undoubtable that you would have such a setup in in your own brownstone. As for the crew you may not want them at your home unless you want to invite them back specifically so
Iona Starling:and turn into login so I'm not sure how much you want like a dragon. start looping around your area.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Just just it's probably the place he'd rather have them than the actual main labs. We saw you actually gonna invite us to your house for a secret base
Snyders Return:price. He's a good host. It's a good thing. He probably has like a bad kid. Oh my god.
Iona Starling:I can't imagine Rafa being like a cat and just knocking something over.
Unknown:That wouldn't be so far. From his his personality,
Snyders Return:that would be a spectacular way to become one with the drywall permanently. So I put some information, some location information in the discord chat, because I'm in two separate classes. If you want me to adjust them, just let me know. Yeah.
Iona Starling:Probably detail actually she owns a part. But I should say if she's currently like hurting someone, she will either try and rent a place near them or if they're willing to sleep in a on the couch and anywhere in their house, right. But that's just like, you know, these right details, you might not feel the need to was wrong because he has powers too.
Snyders Return:So we got misko medlars. This is set in the modern time. So there will be most of the mod cons you can think of plus a little bit more because of r&d being done by helix labs. We have discussed a crew theme weakness. Oh, yeah. Just a suggestion. How do you guys feel about different agendas? Makes sense? I think
Unknown:that's that's kind of a normal way of, of, of playing. Because Sure, we have a common goal. Yes. But everyone has something that they want. And I think that's very organic, kind of. Yeah,
Iona Starling:well, true. I guess I was just thinking about the fact that Edwards, you know, he wouldn't mind tossing this out on the curb if it gets him what he wants. Right. Like that's, that's what I was thinking about. It's not a personal relationship. So we can't really trust each other personally, probably not. Probably don't like Ayana very much, to be honest. But that's not that's not something now to talk about. Anyway. It was just a suggestion.
Snyders Return:So different agendas covers a broad range of situations be a weakness. Yeah. Do we take the do we take a taxi? Do we take some of these car? Do we take the subway? I want to do this. I want to do that different agendas. Do we investigate this case or follow that lead different agendas, that kind of stuff? So it works. Certainly not taking my vehicle. I don't know what ragamuffins been
Unknown:RAF probably just has a motorcycle and takes the tube all the time. So
Snyders Return:yeah, again, but that was an example. So we know what your weaker? What about some power tags? on page one, four.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I've got the questions up. How do you help assist or support one another? Where do you meet work rest or care for action? I
Unknown:think makes sense. The place for meeting I think I can we can kind of use the lab as a place that we can do research. I think that that we can get that information because you have probably good computers and you have your research things and I can use my it knowledge for for stuff that is
Snyders Return:5g and the best Ethernet cables the money you can now buy.
Iona Starling:Yeah, you all we also have Yeah, since it's connected Pantelleria healthcare clinic i think that that combination those those resources might be helpful. That might be a good health Cuttack, because Rafa then has connections to both of us and all of them. Right. Well, that might be a good path.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So for Dr. Edwards lab, yeah.
Iona Starling:What have you learned what to do well together, Nothing. Nothing? Not Yeah. Who is guiding backing or assisting your operation? Oh. Is there anyone on Chris's side who's particularly willing to see him do his research?
Snyders Return:I mean, he's cool research, but he likes Yes,
Dr. Henry Edwards:what you're doing. For me, I can use that tag in every situation so I'm just thinking what approach or a tactic to share and tackling challenges. obsessive is to
Iona Starling:divide and conquer new peace people who could divide superiority. I think we're all driven. I don't know about Rafa but I guess as a hacker, you'd all we'd all mean decent at being able to understand a situation like logically like, be good at
Rafa:this. This is this shit that has to be done for Right. Yeah, ref is pretty smart guy. So yeah, you'll you'll see a lot of that.
Iona Starling:Yeah. I don't know for example she part information tags is the understand cause and consequences really well. So it might not be a bad idea to have something like, you know, good tacticians or something. But that's not the word spoke attestations logical planners. high IQ, high IQ 300 iq
Unknown:plays Smart Cookies. Outstanding move.
Iona Starling:not be a bad idea. But there's one thing that piqued my mind. Um, what special sources of information do you have? That might be good?
Dr. Henry Edwards:None of us really have an information.
Snyders Return:I wouldn't say that was strictly true.
Unknown:I do, or ref at least has rough activists network,
Snyders Return:I only has her brother. And the good doctor, I'm gonna keep saying it the good doctor has potentially sympathetic or those indebted to him within helix for those that might want to leg up. So you actually have lots of different special sources of information depending on how you want to take that.
Iona Starling:Yeah, well, that that's, I mean, those all seem like power tags onto themselves.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Why don't we go with associates? Oh, that like covers the wide swath of allies? Yeah, definitely.
Unknown:Yeah.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So that would be g? Yeah. Yes.
Iona Starling:So are we also going for one approach or tactic you share and tackling challenges? Or are we doing something else than the 300 iq play?
Dr. Henry Edwards:That was mostly ambition, but
Unknown:we have the we have the research facility, we have the agents now. And so we need a third one.
Iona Starling:Yeah, it's just because none of the rest of these seem to be like, marking something. Um, but but that idea. I don't know why, but I feel like it might be the reason we're drawn to each other because even though you think we're ruffians, good doctor, um, we're useful ruffians. That's the only reason you're keeping us around. So unwillingly or willingly? I don't know. You know, she's kind of defined by the fact that who knows what needs to be done and do the hard things and I'm sure Rafa, as an activist is no stranger to finding clever ways to circumvent the law.
Unknown:You could say that,
Snyders Return:so what environments or situations you most comfortable in morally grey situations? Oh, good. I might not be bad. I mean, that's, that's f as a as a question letter. They sent us a question number nearly so yeah.
Unknown:Yeah. It's like, really grey. moral ambiguity outside of the law, so morally ambiguous. Marlene, not evil. But, you know, for the greater good differently. Alright, well, we need an identity. We didn't give ourselves an identity. I figured once we had some tags that would be easier. Yeah. And the weakness tech we could do kind of unstable powers.
Dr. Henry Edwards:How do you feel about the ends justify the means as an identity for this? Oh, is identity okay. Yeah, sure. Cuz, I mean, it's definitely it suits the group. I feel like with Rafa's activism and willingness to kind of skirt the technicalities of the law
Iona Starling:yeah you know ruin a handful of people's life to be fair they earned it but you know you're ruining lives is actually fair. vigilante ism Right.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Which is definitely what one might describe as extra legal
Iona Starling:thing necessarily the vibe Yeah. And yeah, I don't know where it's perfectly with there. But it doesn't make a sound incredibly nefarious. Like it does, like
Dr. Henry Edwards:your shadow dragon. I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Raph is a giant man eating Volkers. Yeah, but
Unknown:I will rewrite my weakness with that sentence. By By going Berzerk Oh my God, we we got the same week. You copy me, you call me. I'm suing you. I have absolutely used bitchy people as a weakness as epic not on this character but I wish them was for this good he was he accountable and the story just a killer serial killer and a sadist. I'm just saying that that's a waste. That's just saying, wait.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Ironically, ironically, none of his character flaw weaknesses have anything to do with the CRM. They're all just regular. Dr. Edwards. Is that a brag? Is that supposed to be a brag because I don't feel like that's that's like, you know. But it's true. So weird flex.
Unknown:Weird flex, but
Dr. Henry Edwards:okay. I'm supposed to say that everything that's wrong with him was wrong with him before he started taking drugs and helping out.
Snyders Return:So moving on. So we have a title and identity, some power tags a weakness tag? I think that is crew thing complete?
Dr. Henry Edwards:Do we parents do crew relationships? Or do we just want to assign points?
Snyders Return:With the help and hurt points? Yes.
Iona Starling:Want to go through it by the same book or just by what we think relationships would be? I think
Snyders Return:for this one, for this initial one, it will be what you think it would be so you can have to each to put one one place in one another place. Okay. Under your character card. It says underneath your logos, it's got crew and play a character. So you will put Iona and Dr. Edwards, Henry Edwards or dr question mark, however you choose to refer to the good doctor. And then you've got to help points. So you can either put sorry, two points you can either put one in each or two in one or you can have a help and a hook for the same character or one help on her and opposing characters or to help points for a single character all depends on how you feel your relationship with the other characters are
Iona Starling:okay, they right off the bat. I think I would not trust Dr. Henry. swimmer she could throw um, she definitely you know i'm not sure how you know if he's a particularly if you live in person or he takes time to hide the fact that he is his main goal was his knowledge. But you know from the way he acts, she probably would have gone impression that this is a guy who would not mind at all throwing them under the bus if it benefits. Right.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I mean, the words in different deck are not inappropriate.
Iona Starling:So that is an indifferent point. On the opposite side, he would be grateful to rap for helping her and probably I assume, willing to deal with the absolute show that he's having an evil dragon inside you constantly attempting to destroy everything. Very nice of him. Nice about that? It wasn't nice. Was he nice? Wasn't he nice? Raph Yeah, he would he
Unknown:kind of disappear if you're not looking right he just kind of leans on a wall and the next thing is not really there anymore. So until you really hit him he's gonna be nice. That's rough, buddy. Yeah, and I mean he I am going to kind of play him on like the kind of demand or like he's the already a guy who has seen a lot of shit and for a teenager who didn't really can't really control her mythos it's I don't think it's going to be so hard to pleased innovate for a while and tall. things calm down.
Snyders Return:Not teenager. She's two years older than a teenager. Point to Point point for a kid. ethically correct. The best Kind of correct.
Unknown:Raph is going to be very optimistic and just have help point for each because he's just happy to be to have people are nice guys. Yeah. And even though he's a criminal, but he's nice, you know, it's not a criminal. It's just making corporations do the right thing. And he's kind of helping giving them a nudge. It's like a parent who has to draw the line and say, no, this stops here. You're You're grounded for a while until you you go and ask for forgiveness. So you pay a bunch of activists but he is no he does not ask for money. He is not in there for problem.
Iona Starling:I would love to hear how that excuse holds up in court. I would love like the exact
Dr. Henry Edwards:Your Honour I was just giving them a corporate spanking. Yeah. Write that down. So don't forget it. All right. What about Edwards? I mean, if that doesn't make it into rest power tags, I don't know what will.
Unknown:It will at when whenever I power up, the activist will have power tech called corporate spanking. I'm already writing it into my improvements.
Snyders Return:What happens when you stop holding back? My Word, right, so I'm going the wrong way. That's a bad one. We're not bringing up alright. Wait, wait, wait. Whoa, Edwards. Did you give your helper her points or not? Oh, it's to her points.
Unknown:Yeah. I need that peekaboo mean. We need that tries to act surprise, or one for each or two for me. Another 20. Okay, totally funny. And funny that it was tempting. Oh, all his wrath on to RAF.
Iona Starling:double down on RAF. Yeah, yeah. I don't like you. But fuck you specifically. Don't get on but you know,
Unknown:he'll he'll just his Roth will just meet a very like a toothbrush at smile. thing. Exactly.
Iona Starling:One of your powers actually making the ding is that also going into your approval?
Unknown:This is this is going to a future. Bastion. Yeah, studying pearly white ding.
Iona Starling:Yeah, yeah. Well, Oh, my God. Is that it? Is that our crew done? And I hope? Yeah, yeah. Well, it did.
Unknown:We haven't really even started playing. But this was already for very fun, huh? I agree. Man, you know me, you know, shitposting.
Snyders Return:I have given you all a handout. I know, owner is totally absent. But I've given all three of you a handout into which I will put amplify amplifying information that you would already know as characters. So when it comes to that, would I know this person, if I've not written in the handout, they will do that. If I've written in the handout, I will put a little bit of extra information there about why this person or This location is important, or referenced to your character. So that we don't have to stop every two minutes to ask Do I know this thing in the city? Do I know this person when you probably worked with worked with them in some way shape or description or have heard of them? multiple multiple times in your many years of varied existence? So I will do that.
Unknown:I'm it's this this hacktivist knowledge that you that appeared here, right? For me? Yes, yeah.
Snyders Return:Okay. So there will be people. So if you wanted to investigate something, or wanted to reach out to someone who had better connections, or in a slightly different part of the height of his network, than you would have a name to use, rather than sort of searching through empty space in your mind to come up with some sort of tenuous link. So it's just to try and try and help you help me, help us. Some of them will be riffs, some of them will be sleepers, but I will not necessarily put that information on depending on your relation with that person. That makes sense. No, no. Perfect. All right. All right. Ah, okay. So we'll move into the day the life. Let's start talking and then I will work from effectively east to west. So I will go to Iona first, then rough and then ending with the doctor as to how it works, but I'll get to that. All right, sunrises hitting the sands of the beach front, casting long shadows as it as the sun rises higher into the sky across the large ships in the docks. And you can hear the hustle and the bustle of the blue collar district sort of starting to stir and come to life getting ready for the the toil of the day. This is momentarily drowned out by the sounds of gunshots and sirens reverberating from somewhere deep in the city. Again, this sound lost in the confusion of noise as the industrial zone gears up, ready to spring into life. And as we move into the city, we come across a nice area. Thanks for listening. You can find out more about the show, including our interview episodes via our link tree or at our website at www dot Snow's return.squarespace.com please consider leaving us a review. City of mist as a ttrpg by Sun. You can find out more about city mist by going to www dot city of mist.co music and sound effects for this episode from epidemic sounds.com. The intro and outro music were composed by Chloe Elliot. You can find her on Twitter at Khloe underscore with the flow. The logo was designed by Jessie Lowe. You can find her artwork on Twitter at akkad Nomi underscore art. We're gonna use our help points and be ready to investigate next time on meddlers monsters and madmen