Story Ideas Come From the Strangest Places

We are getting the kids ready for Halloween and my youngest is a cute little witch. She was chomping on something gooey and I asked her what it was. She told me she was eating a ghost (Dots candy has a ghost version for Halloween). I gave her a funny look and she said, "What? Witches eat ghosts."

And that is when a great story idea for Geist came to mind. :)

Storyteller:

And that is when a great story idea for Geist came to mind. :)

Should we dare ask what the idea was?

The idea is still in its early stages but it involved a krewe of Geist who have been alerted that something horrible is happening to the ghosts in the area. Investigating they learn that a "witch is eating all the ghosts" and this is making her very powerful. I just like the concept of a witch who eats ghosts and I am working with that for now.

I'm not quite clear why this would necessarily draw the attention of the krewe, except that someone/thing other than themselves is eating the ghosts.  Ectophagia is one of the ways Sin-Eaters can recover Plasm, after all...

That's...that's awesome. Truly.

I am still working on how I am going to handle it mechanically or whether I want to keep it on the fluff side. The thought did occur to me that the witch might be able to eat Geists as well. Really, I would only allow it to munch on them but I won't tell the players that. As far as they know this witch is "eating ghosts" and when they showed up the witch started to do it to them too. Then I let it play out a bit from there. Still much to think about though.

Ectophasia may be a way for Sin-Eaters to restore plasm, but that doesn't mean it's widely encouraged... Perhaps this particular krewe REALLY frowns on the practice and gets motivated to do something about it...

And perhaps this particular witch DOESN'T know she can munch on geists until the one time she encounters one and tries it and realizes that the geist is something special - apart from the other drones she's sampled previously.

If nothing else, everything in the WoD seems to get offended when you start messing with 'their turf'.  Werewolves feel like they're the only ones entitled to enforce the spirit rules, Vampires don't like others playing with their little meat puppets, and mages get real offended when other people start trying to act all flamboyant and not really horror-y.  So it only stands to reason that even if Sin-Eaters frown on Sin-Eaters commiting ectophagia, it's still their right to do it, and no Merlin-wanna-be should be able to come in and do it better.  Of course you said 'witch', which is way cooler and thematically apropriate than 'mage' if you ask me.  Regardless, I'm on the let-us-know-what-comes-of-it bandwagon.

Storyteller:

We are getting the kids ready for Halloween and my youngest is a cute little witch. She was chomping on something gooey and I asked her what it was. She told me she was eating a ghost (Dots candy has a ghost version for Halloween). I gave her a funny look and she said, "What? Witches eat ghosts."

And that is when a great story idea for Geist came to mind. :)

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