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Originally Posted by dcarson
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I will attempt to avoid anything resembling
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also, whatever fan-fiction that was... *shudder*.
The tone is a lot more like X-Files than Buffy, I hope. Two of the PCs are completely unaware of the existence of the supernatural and not inclined to believe in it if they hear or see anything that can possibly be explained away by science or psychology.
Of those two who might accept supernatural explanations; one is a cynical big-city cop who has seen enough unexplained murders, apparent sudden-onset psychosis and horrific motiveless attacks by normal people who do damage out of all proportion to their size and build for him to refuse altogether to examine other explanations. He's started studying the supernatural and since he is a brilliant autodidact who has an extensive background in history and literature, he's a fount of information on the occult in fiction and historical accounts. He doesn't know anything about what actually works, however.
The last PC actually knows a practising magician, his uncle*, an Australian Aborigine elder of the Kalkadoon tribe. He was given a protective stone when he left for Iraq and a cryptic warning about what he would encounter there. In his dreams, he sometimes converses with his uncle and may continue to receive warnings or other information from him.
None of the PCs have actual supernatural powers or are the chosen ones of any friendly supernatural entities. They can't cast spells, use psi or exhibit divine powers.
*Well, the brother of his mother's adopted brother. There is no blood tie, but old 'Munthapanti' (Billy Bundi) calls Taz Walker his 'Little Nephew' and Taz keeps in regular contact with a lot of the extended family of Joey Honey, his mother's adopted brother.