Rest would be good, you decide. This is exactly the reason why you avoided the library for most of your life. You find your sleep restless, frequently interspersed with waking up soaked in sweat. You don't seem to have dreams anymore, though that could be good or bad either way. After about three rude awakenings, you finally manage to get a solid three hours of sleep. Any normal person would look all messed up and probably have a throbbing headache, but you actually get out of bed, get dressed and are ready for school.
Downstairs you find your mother putting a bunch of microwaveable foods on trays and setting up the table. "Good morning, sweetie. John and Jack are at work. James went to school early." She takes a seat and drinks her coffee. "You alright?"
You explain your restless night to her briefly, but you say you wanna go to school. You think it's important to get more people into your coven as soon as you can. Your mother seems worried, but she also looks like she's used to this kind of thing. She goes and wakes up Stacey and Cindy, the three of you have breakfast and get a ride to school from Mom. School's started already, but they're used to you being late for classes anyway. You try to keep an eye out for potential coven material, aside from the girls you already know (down in the bottom spoilers).
During classes you don't really get to gauge anyone's worth. Apart from seeing which snobs are good at math and which jerks rule PE class, you can't really tell if anyone would be worth the trouble explaining everything and getting them to join you.
Recess was better. You manage to see some potential in some of the students. You see Jinx selling smokes to the other kids in the girl's toilet, as per usual. One of the girls she sells a pack to seems to be new here. She left the toilet surrounded by a pack of five other girls, all tripping over each other just to talk to her. Jinx tells you her name is Jess Edmund, a transfer student. If she was turned into a witch she wouldn't even need mind control magic.
You don't manage to find anyone with potential at lunchtime. Cindy, however, did. Once more in the toilet with Jinx, she said she found another girl (though she actually was just using the toilet, instead of buying smokes). All big and tough and everything. Cindy joked that Jinx nearly yelled and told her she was in the wrong bathroom. Seriously though. She's a transfer as well, and she's been rising through the ranks of nearly all the sports teams at school. Her name as Maribel Watkins, though they just call her Mary.
After school you don't find much witch material, though some muscle did cross your mind as also being useful. Getting a few boys to fall for you wasn't really that hard in the past, though now with some magic it would probably be a breeze. Guys from the sports teams would be available and not that hard to convince. There are also a bunch of clubs that could have something useful to offer, if you had control of their members. Even teachers could be convinced to join you, if you wanted to. Aside from that, there are also people outside school you could get.
Name: Laura Putnam
Age: 18
High Social Skills
Above-average Intelligence
Average Strength
Average Speed
Dabbling Pyromancy
Dabbling Occultist
Dabbling Ritualist
Dabbling Leadership
Novice Half-sight (Half-sight is used to refer to any supernatural senses, such as hearing the unheard and seeing the unseen.)
Inventory:
Purse:
$100
Pepper-spray
Smartphone
Notes
Contacts:
Debra Putnam - Your mother and a single parent. She's always had an uneasy relationship with your grandmother. Now you know why. She studied business in college and graduated with a degree. She is now retired, at the age of 50, and relies on your three brothers for a stable living. She is a member of your coven.
John Putnam - Your 25 year old eldest brother. He is a construction worker and a part time tutor. He is currently working on a construction project for a mall in the downtown. He is a member of your coven.
Jack Putnam - The second eldest, at 22 years old. According to him, he's a diving instructor working at the beach, but you and your brothers know he's a drug dealer. He is a member of your coven.
James Putnam - The youngest brother, age 20. An avid body-builder and all-around jock, he was planning on enlisting in the army, but both your mother and grandmother forced him to stay; mom wanted him safe, grandma wanted him to help you. He is a member of your coven.
Stacey Freeman - Your best friend since childhood, she is your next door neighbor back in your urban apartment complex in the city. Her father is a policeman with a passion for firearms, and that seems to have rubbed on his only daughter. She's part of the cheering team with you, and while she gossips and talks behind people's backs, she's like a sister to you and has never let you down. She is a witch in your coven.
Anna Bradley - Your best friend and head of the cheering team. She's dedicated to whatever she's got set on her mind, but it usually devolves into single-minded obsession. She's secretly an avid gamer and knows her ways around computers and gadgets, usually getting lost in the middle of a conversation ranting about them. Still, she's one of the most hardworking people you know, and a great friend to boot.
Jinx Jezebel - Once she was called Amy Angstrom, but she's changed her name and persona from the cute kid you befriended in preschool to the smoking, alcoholic Jinx the Goth girl. Deep down inside, she's still Amy, and usually she only shows it to you. She has a lot of contacts outside school that should probably stay outside school, but connections to the criminal underworld are probably useful.
Mary Moore - A librarian who you befriended early in your highschool years, she's shy and reserved, but secretly she's got a thing for the dark and occult. Like, a big thing. She's shown you her altar to Aleister Crowley she made in the school library, which she managed to hide from everyone by placing it in the bookshelf behind the Advanced Quantum Physics section.
Cindy Steele - Another friend in the cheering team, Cindy once had a crush on you in junior high. You had your sights on someone else, and awkwardness ensued for a while, but all that's cleared up now. She's from a rich, upper-crust family who are more concerned about their daughter's grades than their actual daughter. Because of that, she's resorted to smoking with Jinx sometimes. She is a witch in your coven.
Diana Jones - A neighbor in your apartment complex and a childhood friend, you used to play in the park after school as children and babysit sometimes, since she was five years your elder. She's the eldest daughter in a family of six with a single father. She's incredibly smart and recently finished her degree in accounting. She's been trying to land a job in a bank, but has had no luck.
Rose Hills - A friend two years younger than you. You've never seen a bigger mouth on a smaller girl. Her way with words has her on the debate team. She has an incredibly large complex of friends, and gossip travels faster through it than the Internet can load a webpage. She looks up to you as a sister would.
Well-furbished Cottage
Rural Area
Low Population Neighborhood
Attic: Two bedrooms and storage room.
Second Floor: Four bedrooms and bathrooms.
First Floor: Living area, dining area and bathrooms.
Basement:
-Altar (for conducting sermons and performing rituals.)
-Circle (a drawn circle with pentagram on the floor for performing rituals.)
-Laboratory (furbished with table, alchemy ingredients and apparatus, board for notes, medical tools and study desk.)
-Library
--Occult Wing (Filled with lore and history of witchcraft and similar beings. Useful for finding about witches and their abilities.)
--Ritual Wing (Filled with rituals, their history, effects and instructions.)
--Mundane Wing (Filled with books on causing mundane mayhem, such as creating bombs, psychology books, etc.)
--Forbidden Wing (Though it says Forbidden, it just means forbidden by the church and other religious people. Books, tomes and manuals about demons, spirits and monsters.)
Head: Laura Putnam
Lesser Witches:
-Stacey Freeman
-Cindy Steele
Others:
-Debra Putnam
-John Putnam
-Jack Putnam
-James Putnam
Author
Topic: Hunter and Hunted (TSG) (Read 4704 times)