Vampire 30-Day Challenge: Favorite Other Entity (Werewolf)

Vampire 30-Day Challenge: Favorite Other Entity (Werewolf)

I will admit I was never a huge fan of Werewolf.  I liked the concept, I adored the idea of the Triat and the concept of the Fomori. But I just felt the Werewolves were less about horror and more about super heroism and that admittedly turned me off.

But if I were to choose a Werewolf entity I liked, I would have to give the vote to the Fomori.  Heck, I even ran a few games based on them!  (Sadly only one got recorded.)  But the idea of playing ordinary folks who are irrevocably changed into these disgusting horrors that have awesome abilities was just too cool a concept to ignore.  Among the many stomach-wrenching powers I loved, my first vote will have to go to Stomach Pumper which allowed the player to launch disgusting juices at opponents.    A wicked second place goes to Savage Genitalia which just really was a homage to animated classics such as Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend.  Finally, I will always adore the concept of Brain Eating.

The Fomori were disgusting and cruel and I loved how the write ups in the book of examples on how Pentex and its affiliates lured people into the corporation worked.  Granted, there was some concern over the supposed homophobic sections of the book, I found them personally to be appropriate given the book's context and theme.

The Fomori are monsters that truly explore the idea of humanity pushed to its brink.

Cruel Cruel World : cWOD

07/20/2012
Cruel Cruel World
cWOD

Had a super short session with some friends using the infamous Black Dog Productions book, Freak Legion: A Player's Guide to the Fomori.  The book was released as a supplement for White Wolf Gaming Studios' tremendously popular game, Werewolf: The Apocalypse.  Why is it a Black Dog Productions book?  Because Black Dog is the line they used to release many of their more mature lines.  Think of how dark and frightening White Wolf games are as a norm.  Can you imagine what kind of content it would need to have a "For Adults Only" tag?

Anyway, it was going to be a very quick session, with JP, Tofie and Ryan playing.  Ryan went for a wall flowering kind of guy who happened to be a Federal Agent.  Tofie was a Crime Investigations Forensic expert who knew Ryan back from the academy.  JP opted for a high society hooker.  And yes, he decided to have fun by being a female character.

All three of them were on a bus headed home when the bus met an accident that was to change their lives forever.  A truck owned by a company called Pentex slammed into the bus and all of them were hurriedly gathered and taken away.  Very quickly, the three began to experience things shifting or changing within them.  All felt themselves changing in various ways.  And what first seemed like the emergence of super powers very quickly became something much more horrible as they realized what taints they were to carry with them as a price.  Worms.  Vomit.  Claws.  Blood.  Oh yes.

Here's one bitter gross example:  Ryan, after finding love and making love at last, kills his partner as his sexual member engorges to almost nineteen inches long, and rips her apart from within.  And yes, that is a power in the book called Savage Genitalia.

One thing is for certain, this taste of the World of Darkness was one which the players were going to have to remember each time they ask me to run them, "Something gross and gory!"

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Admittedly, my recap of the game is spotty.  Having barely slept the previous night, I was literally falling asleep at times.  Ironically, it made certain scenes work, however since one of the players had a form of psychic hunger, which had any NPCs he was talking to slip into a coma.   Or at least, nearly into one.

But yeah, this could have been a better game.  Given how it ran for only an hour, I really just needed to get a dose of gaming into me.  It has been weeks since my last one and trust me when I say, I am feeling very very hungry for more.

Oh wait, was that a Bane spirit talking?
Pentex... Oh you....

Six Deaths of Desire: cWOD

09/22/2001
Six Deaths of Desire
cWOD : Vampire the Masquerade : Wraith the Oblivion : Fomori Freak Legion

They go bump in the night.
They feed upon the weak,
the lost
and the ignorant.
Like us.

Like us.

No one wants to admit it.
No one ever will.
But we all believe in monsters.

This night:
6 people discover the truth in the world we live in
 and the monsters that exist within ourselves.

This was my first game with my friend DJ Mojo Jojo and a few other friends.  The game explored the darker forms of desire, ranging from the obsession of a stalker who cannot be killed, to the passions of an undead beating heart and the simply disturbing truth that a woman in love may cross lines that others will never see as sane.  The game had Vampire the Masquerade, Wraith the Oblivion and Fomori: Freak Legion among its resources.

The old recovered Geocities site for the game is found here.