Props Department Requisition

Type: Action/Perk

Archetype: Film Buff

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Savvy

In the Props Department, they read the script like a to-do list. Every scene needs to be filled, every object or plot device needs to be worked up to spec. It can be hard work, but that touch of authenticity really makes a movie shine.

Allows the user to Improvise custom props that the user’s character could reasonably have assembled or built in the narrative without the normal amount of build-up or support required. Even allows research to be compiled. Only works during periods of low tension before Second Blood.

And you’ll love it more because you did it yourself.

Intermission

Type: Action/Insight

Archetype: Film Buff

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Savvy

The movie has been going on for a while. You could use a break. When is intermission again?

Grants Deathwatch as defined by the user’s Aspect Trope.

While on Deathwatch, the user can pause the movie to explore the theater, greet other viewers, or even get refreshments. When the viewing resumes, the storyline will pick up a few moments (determined by Savvy) before the trope is used, to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Other Deathwatch tropes will still be usable during this time.

We won’t bite.

Not a Dry Eye

Type: Rule

Archetype: Eye Candy

Aspect: Celebrity

Stat Used: Moxie

The fans came to watch their favorite actor kick butt and survive, not to watch them die, but that might be when death hits the hardest.

The user’s Dying Acts will be buffed in effectiveness.

Who’s cutting onions?

Passing the Torch

Type: Buff

Archetype: Eye Candy

Aspect: Celebrity

Stat Used: Moxie

Watching a legacy character or genre actor mentor new actors on the big screen can show real growth, even if they are training their replacement.

The user can pass buffs and trope-given skills onto protégés within the film using a training montage. The user will get more money than usual.

Passing the torch. More like putting you on an ice floe.

Burke, Deli Manager

Clearance Sale Cultist

They say he came to Carousel looking for work, and he found it at the Eternal Savers Club, where the linoleum hums and the pallets shift on their own after dark. But Burke wasn’t hired for his efficiency. He was chosen. Deep beneath the bulk aisles and bargain rotisserie, a god sleeps, dreaming of cleaner slates. And Burke, hollowed by grief, chants along with the others in back rooms that smell of ammonia and incense, offering what’s left of the world to whatever wakes.

He does not want power. He does not want revenge. He wants to see his children again. To hold them in a world without sirens, without loss, without the woman whose negligence took them away. He’s willing to burn everything else away to make that world real. And when the shelves collapse and the lights go out, when the ground splits open to let something through, he’ll still be reaching out with open arms, hoping that whatever crawls out of the pit wears their faces.

The Fatted Calf

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Type: Rule

Archetype: Athlete

Aspect: Health Nut

Stat Used: Grit

When a victim in a horror movie is full of life, their death can hit even harder. Their sacrifice can inspire tremendous things.

When the user is killed, especially in First or Second Blood or in a ritualistic or carnivorousmanner, the narrative weight of that death will be heavier. The death might be enough in itself to satisfy Second Blood, even for a storyline with an otherwise high death count.

He was in the Grade A Prime of his life.

Captive’s Best Resort & Spa

Type: Perk/Buff

Archetype: Athlete

Aspect: Health Nut

Stat Used: Grit

In some movies, captivity serves as nothing more than a training ground. The heroes leave stronger than they came in.

While the user is Captured, they will not be harmed until the enemy reaches their end goal for the capture. A longer captivity will provide opportunities for exercise and healing. Co-Captives will be able to provide wisdom that propels the character when they leave. The user will be buffed depending on what happens during captivity.

There’s probably someone on the internet who would pay good money for this experience.

Unfinished Business

Type: Rule

Archetype: Departed

Aspect: —

Stat Used: Grit

Death isn’t the end for those that are bound by earthly tethers. Sometimes, those tethers can be stronger than death itself.

Upon Death, the user will remain as a player, kept around as a ghost or by similar supernatural powers. They are still bound by the gameplay limits of the Dead status. They may communicate with allies through lore-friendly or trope-assisted means. The user will guide players to finish the user’s subplot, though that plot may be elevated and expanded.

Finish the Job is now a Win Condition if at all narratively possible. This will be confirmed on the red wallpaper.

Death isn’t the end. It’s much more boring than all that.

You’re Probably Wondering Why

Type: Perk/Insight

Archetype: Outsider

Aspect: Newcomer

Stat Used: Moxie

It is so helpful of bad guys and other antagonistic characters to explain their goals to the heroes and audience alike. Otherwise, they’d have to figure it out themselves.

Intelligent, verbal enemies will always explain their motives before acting on them to a witness that the user has access to, if not to the user themselves. Note: this explanation might happen Off-Screen.

I should have made a presentation. Darn.

I’m Not Supposed To Die

Type: Rule

Archetype: Bruiser

Aspect: Bully

Stat Used: Grit

Sometimes the protagonist is not the one pushing the story forward. Sometimes, they are just following orders from a no-nonsense commander or a headstrong tough guy. But by the end of the movie, the true hero has to shine even if that means their leader must go.

When the user succumbs during Second Blood or later, they can pass their buffs to a remaining main character that has previously been following their orders by expressing fear or hubris about their own death. The user’s demise will often be brutal.

They probably wouldn’t have been so Gung-ho if they knew they weren’t going to walk away in the end.

Jessika, Perfume Counter Associate

Clearance Sale Cultist

Jessika was never late for a shift at Eternal Savers Club. She stocked shelves with purpose, recited chants beneath the hum of the freezers, and waited for the god below to stir. She didn’t join the cult for glory or even salvation. She joined for her sister, cursed with paralysis from the neck down, sentenced to a life she never chose. Jessika only wanted to build a world where that sentence could be undone.

She knows what the god demands. She gives it gladly. But when the foundations of the earth start to crack and the new world draws breath, Jessika may learn that even mercy has a price. And the sister she prayed for might not recognize what’s been made in her name.

Blood Solvent

Type: Debuff

Archetype: Final Girl

Aspect: Scream Queen

Stat Used: Grit

Blood has power in story and magic. Where those two meet, the shedding of blood can carry more meaning than just the presence of an injury.

When the user suffers an injury On-Screen that causes bloody carnage, any magic or meta-powered weapon, plot device, or spell that gets soaked will be debuffed in its ability to harm. This effect may be explained in the lore or the meta.

Don’t injure the queen unless you can kill her.

Shambri, Clothing Department Attendant

Clearance Sale Cultist

She never asked for the world to burn. She only asked for someone to listen. Shambri came to the Eternal Savers Club looking for answers, for justice against a name the courts would not speak and a face that never saw consequence. The cult offered something better. Not prison. Not retribution. Correction. A ritual that could unmake the story entirely and write one where he never hurt her at all.

Shambri is not cruel. She is not broken. She is tired of being told to heal in a world that never cared about the wound. When the chanting ends and the shelves fall and the sky goes red with revelation, she will be waiting. Not to be forgiven. Only to be freed.

A Meaningful Sacrifice

Type: Rule/Buff

Archetype: Wallflower

Aspect: Recast

Stat Used: Moxie

Sacrifice without lasting stakes is not enough.

If the user has fulfilled their On-Screen role as it was originally written before they were recast in that role, they can leave the story without any ill effect or risk of death. They can just walk away.

If they stay instead, any character they sacrifice themselves for will not die even if the storyline is failed, and will have buffed stats for the rest of the storyline.

Trust is difficult to earn and easy to lose.