TTRPG CHARACTER 5: Pearl Driscoll

BASIC INFO NAME: Pearl Driscoll GAME: Monster of the Week PLAYBOOK: The Hex Gender: Female STATS CHARM: +1 COOL: -1 SHARP: +1 TOUGH: 0 WEIRD: +2 LOOK Trendy clothes EYES Sharp eyes. TEMPTATION Secrets. Use magic to discover forbidden, dangerous knowledge.

Pearl Lapidarist, Rich Bitch, Bad Luck Charm BACKGROUND Monster of the Week is what it says on the tin, so it functions as Buffy the Vampire Hunter: the Game. Or Supernatural: the Game. Or X-Files: the Game. Between them all, Pearl is definitely more from a Buffy background, than a hunter who grew up in this business. A popular girl, though never the queen bee, she was in with that crowd. After all, her parents are jewelers. She might be a metal shop girlie at heart, but on the surface level she has the money and the access to glitz to buy her access to the good social circles. Her burn scars are under gloves, anyway, so they're basically not even there. But while other people can ignore what's not on the surface, she's... bad at that. And that's why she got tangled up in this supernatural shit, and now that she is what is she supposed to do? Just ignore the constant threats hanging around her house and the school and ruining her nightlife and also maybe her regular life? She's not chosen, she doesn't have an inherited gift, she's not part ghoulie or beastie. She's just dead if she decides to stop using the little bit of strength she's found a way to give herself. And because that's in her head, she'll ignore danger to find out more about secret, dangerous, and forbidden magic. If she's dead either way, she might as well take the risk that might show her a way to make things better. Or at least, make things go her way. Things do usually go her way, though not necessarily to the way of people around her. Pearl's magic, when it goes awry, doesn't go for her as long as there's someone else around to hit. Allies, bystanders, and sometimes maybe even an enemy. Gear Ritual components: Bag of unpolished, raw gems & semiprecious stones. Used for her rote. Ritual components: Object of power. Ring. "Found" in a gorgon den. Stolen. Used for her rote. Wizardly weapon: Athame (2-harm hand magic silver) Wizardly weapon: .38 revolver (2-harm close reload loud) MOVES Bad Luck Charm: Whenever you use magic and miss, the backlash never affects you directly if there’s someone else around to hit. It’ll go for allies, other hunters, and innocent bystanders. Sometimes, every so often, it might even hit an enemy. Burn Everything: When you use magic to inflict harm, you can choose to inflict 3-harm area magic obvious or 3-harm ignore-armour magic obvious. This Might Sting: You can use magic to heal 3-harm, but the process is exceptionally painful. On a 7-9 it also leaves a gnarly scar. ROTES Girl's Best Friend: Requires: An expendable component such as sulfur, sage, or incense, which must be burned, blown, or scattered during the casting. (Stone/glass/gem, shattered) | An object of power (wand, talisman, orb, staff, etc) which must be wielded (ring) Effect: Something is replaced with the material of her shattering. 10+: It works exactly as she planned. The blanket is now a diamond shield. The door is glass, and can be shattered. The plastic toy sword is now sharp steel. The wolfman's leg is now stone. 7-9: It works, but the area of effect is wrong or there is another complication. Perhaps she only meant to affect the zipper so someone couldn't break into a bag. The whole bag is now stone— what's inside is safe now, but hard to access. Maybe the whole wall is glass, instead of the door, and the cultists inside can see you and are forewarned. Etc. The wolfman has heavy stone claws and fur slowing it down, but it is still coming. Miss It goes awry. Something unhelpful is effected. The lightbulb turns to jade and shatters on the floor, plunging the room into pitch black. A gun turns to soft gold and firing a bullet deforms it. The wolfman has diamond tipped claws. EDITORIAL Character number 5! Monster of the Week feels like a good follow-up to Monsterhearts 2, since they use very similar systems. I've played Monster of the Week before though, and have another character for it, but I decided to make a new one just for fun! My other character uses the Divine playbook, and is a very shitty angel who is trying his best who makes primarily bad decisions. So I went into making a new character with the Bad Decisions as her primary trait! Pearl is not a good girl and she really isn't trying to be. I support women's wrongs. Not that her core wants are bad or anything, but her playbook is definitely geared towards like, Willow in peak bad decision season of Buffy. It's been a while, I forget which one that was. Season 6? The core concept of the playbook is like, uses magic regardless of the detriment it causes to others around them, because this girl was thrown into the middle of supernatural bullshit and decided to latch onto magic because they feel they don't have another option. Her playbook is not one of the starter playbook options, and can be found here. As an aside, she's also named after Clara Driscoll.

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