A new character for Don’t Rest Your Head
My Name Is . . .Francesca Shockley (Frankie Shock)
And I Am . . .a radio DJ for KROQ
What’s been keeping you awake?
My mother. She’s nuts…No I mean really nuts. Locked up nuts. How am I going to take care of her? How can I afford all this? I mean someone’s got to get her care, get her looked after. My kid sister’s useless. Sure she’s a hot shot lawyer down in Pensicola (Annabella Kingsman, look her up) but like she’d ever haul her butt back here to help out and take care of our mom. So there’s me. Just me.
What’s on the surface?
Hippie dippy DJ girl. I look like a stoned out rock groupie or something. Yeah, I guess these tattoo sleeves don’t help but hey, they’re cool right? And even though I’m a girl it makes me look like I could stomp your nuts into oblivion if you look at me sideways. I like that.
What lies beneath?
I am the biggest softie ever. I mean ever! I’d give you the shirt off my back even if I didn’t have a shirt. Nobody gets that.
What’s your path?
I want my mom back. I want a family. I want to feel like I did when I was seven, and safe, and protected…
What just happened to you?
Finished another 10 to 2am slot at the station, stopped by Tom’s on the way to my crapbox apartment and shot down too much whiskey while smoking too many smokes. While walking back to my place (can’t afford a car), I saw this little girl…I swear she was wearing what was my uniform when I was seven, this short and t-shirt set with sneakers…anyway, she was talking to this tall dude. Scary looking guy, musta been seven feet tall! And he had like a beak or something! She handed him a glass thing, like a snow globe, and asked “is this what you wanted?”
He made this evil snicker sound and took it. I shouted to leave her alone, give it back, but he just snickered more and walked away. I followed him, not really wanting to catch up but wanting to see where he went. We went into the park as the fog started rolling in, and I lost him. All I could hear was his umbrella tapping. And now I’m in this graveyard, that I’m certain I never even knew was in my neighbourhood.
So now what?
Discipline 3
Madness 0
Exhaustion 0
Fight 2 Flight 1
Exhaustion Talent: Communication – I can speak with and understand any language (even though I only know english, and my high school teacher said I didn’t even know that very well)
Madness Talent: The power of words – Whatever I say happens. Not like the Paper Boys, but like that old D&D spell “power word – kill”. I say a word or two of command, and it happens, no matter what it is I say.
Building a character for DRYH is that easy. Rules lite? Yeah, kinda. For characters anyway. Dicing for stuff? That’s another matter entirely…
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