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Emberskyes

Oct 19, 2025 9:16 pm
Oct 19, 2025 9:16 pm
[Closed] Interest Check - Vaesen
So I've had this idea kind of rolling about in my head for a while and I want to see if there's any interest.

Rules - Vaesen, because it's got a kind of spooky darkness built in and it's set in the 19th Century. I'm not 100% familiar with the rules so it'll be a learn as we go kind of thing. I am familiar with Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood so I'm not completely fresh to Year Zero.

Setting - The United Kingdom in the late 19th Century, 1889-1890. Why? This is the time of Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Rappaccini, and all those good creepy fellows.

Character Concepts - You are the daughters or sons of various famous literary characters from the 18th and 19th Century. Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, VanHelsing, Dr. Moreau, Capt. Nemo, Dr. Frankenstein, etc. As the offspring of such an auspicious individual you'll each have one ability that you are incredibly (perhaps - supernaturally?) good at.
(Yes I know Jekyll and Hyde are technically the same person but I mean really, if you squint and look at them sideways, they're not.)

Keep in mind some of these people, according to the stories, didn't have children but rather, created their offspring. Perhaps you're one of those?

Anyways, it's just kind of an idea that I've had and I'm going to go look at Vaesen some more while I wait to see if there's an interest.
Last edited November 5, 2025 5:19 am

Lemming23

Oct 19, 2025 11:50 pm
Oct 19, 2025 11:50 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
If you don't pick.me, Vethalia will really get to hate getting feathers all up in her face. All. The. Time.

TechnocratSloth15Inactive for 1 months

Oct 20, 2025 1:47 am
Oct 20, 2025 1:47 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
I don’t know the rules, but I would be interested.

runekyndig

Oct 20, 2025 3:55 am
Oct 20, 2025 3:55 am
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Thomas Watson, son of doctor Watson, at your service mam.

TechnocratSloth15Inactive for 1 months

Oct 20, 2025 3:59 am
Oct 20, 2025 3:59 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
By any chance, did your father have an unconventionally close relationship with his colleague?

runekyndig

Oct 20, 2025 4:36 am
Oct 20, 2025 4:36 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
TechnocratSloth15 says:
By any chance, did your father have an unconventionally close relationship with his colleague?
No, his mother is Mary Morstan. They met during the case of Sign of 4

Emberskyes

Oct 20, 2025 2:28 pm
Oct 20, 2025 2:28 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
I like the idea, my only concern with this is you'd be quite young and couldn't be the child of Mary and John. John was born in 1852 so by 1889 he'd be 37ish. John meets Mary in 1888. We know he gets his medical degree from Saint Bart's in 1878 at age 26 and goes to Afghanistan and India after that. You'd have to be his child from sometime before that ...

TechnocratSloth15Inactive for 1 months

Oct 20, 2025 2:52 pm
Oct 20, 2025 2:52 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
If not I might make him a member of the Buendia family

Emberskyes

Oct 20, 2025 3:44 pm
Oct 20, 2025 3:44 pm
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We could figure something out we've got characters in Scandinavia I'm certain we can find like King Lindworm.

A quick google of Buendia kind of reminds me of Encanto, probably an inspiration for the movie. Are any of them from back in the 1800's, the family tree's I can find in a rush don't have birth or death dates on them.

The only thing for either is why are they in the UK?

I'd have to look through the Vaesen Britain book and see if there are shape changers there and I guarantee there are as the Norse spent a year or two in England.

TechnocratSloth15Inactive for 1 months

Oct 20, 2025 4:11 pm
Oct 20, 2025 4:11 pm
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The Buendia are the family from a Hundred Years of Solitude. It’s one of my favorite books. Maybe he would be in England to study, work, or avoid instability in his homeland.

But honestly I prefer the occultist concept.

Emberskyes

Oct 20, 2025 4:36 pm
Oct 20, 2025 4:36 pm
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What's your character thought Lemming?

Lemming23

Oct 21, 2025 2:44 am
Oct 21, 2025 2:44 am
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Haven't decided yet, will have a think. :)

Emberskyes

Oct 21, 2025 3:24 am
Oct 21, 2025 3:24 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
Give me a day or three to create a page.

Emberskyes

Oct 21, 2025 3:24 am
Oct 21, 2025 3:24 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
Give me a day or three to create a page.

Lemming23

Oct 21, 2025 3:44 am
Oct 21, 2025 3:44 am
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I'm considering Allan Quatermain, of King Solomon's Mines fame. Hunter, explorer, somewhat mystical and cryptozoologist cal.

Emberskyes

Oct 21, 2025 4:27 am
Oct 21, 2025 4:27 am
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Will you be their son or daughter?

I tried to create a page tonight ... GP ate my words, smiled and burped but gave me nothing.

*sigh*

runekyndig

Oct 21, 2025 11:45 am
Oct 21, 2025 11:45 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
Emberskyes says:
I like the idea, my only concern with this is you'd be quite young and couldn't be the child of Mary and John. John was born in 1852 so by 1889 he'd be 37ish. John meets Mary in 1888. We know he gets his medical degree from Saint Bart's in 1878 at age 26 and goes to Afghanistan and India after that. You'd have to be his child from sometime before that ...
An Anna Van Helsing could also be an alternative, since math got the better of my Watson idea ;)

TechnocratSloth15Inactive for 1 months

Oct 21, 2025 4:18 pm
Oct 21, 2025 4:18 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
I also like the idea of someone who "claims" to be related to Baron Munchausen

runekyndig

Oct 21, 2025 4:51 pm
Oct 21, 2025 4:51 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
TechnocratSloth15 says:
I also like the idea of someone who "claims" to be related to Baron Munchausen
Oh that is beautiful! :D

Emberskyes

Oct 22, 2025 12:58 am
Oct 22, 2025 12:58 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
I assume there is a Vaesen Character sheet on yhe site somewhere but I keep getting just empty white pages as searches. Anyone having better luck?

cowleyc

Oct 22, 2025 1:11 am
Oct 22, 2025 1:11 am
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I got you fam!

Gearspark

Oct 22, 2025 1:12 am
Oct 22, 2025 1:12 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
Emberskyes says:
I assume there is a Vaesen Character sheet on yhe site somewhere but I keep getting just empty white pages as searches. Anyone having better luck?
OOC:
Somebody beat me to it. Same source.
[ +- ] Vaesen (Revised)
[ +- ] Vaesen (Revised)
Last edited October 22, 2025 1:13 am

Harrigan

Oct 22, 2025 2:49 am
Oct 22, 2025 2:49 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
Ember you might already know this, but Free League also put out a Vaesen book called Mythic Britain & Ireland. Might be right over the plate for what you're planning. Cool concept btw! Not applying, but good luck and have fun!

Kier01

Oct 22, 2025 4:38 am
Oct 22, 2025 4:38 am
Interest Check - Vaesen
I'd really like to be a part of this!

Emberskyes

Oct 22, 2025 6:10 pm
Oct 22, 2025 6:10 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
Harrigan says:
Ember you might already know this, but Free League also put out a Vaesen book called Mythic Britain & Ireland. Might be right over the plate for what you're planning. Cool concept btw! Not applying, but good luck and have fun!
I already have it and I'm looking forward to the Carpathia book when that comes out. Thanks.

Emberskyes

Oct 22, 2025 6:10 pm
Oct 22, 2025 6:10 pm
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Kier01 says:
I'd really like to be a part of this!
I'll yoss you an invite too. i've already invited the others.

WhtKnt

Nov 3, 2025 6:49 pm
Nov 3, 2025 6:49 pm
Interest Check - Vaesen
I am completely unfamiliar with Vaesen, but this does sound like an interesting campaign.

Emberskyes

Nov 3, 2025 9:35 pm
Nov 3, 2025 9:35 pm
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I have a 4th slot.
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