While I don’t think the questions we ask need to be as “feral” as Monsterhearts calls for, I think it’s okay to ask some questions with at least some bite. For example, here’s a list someone on the Masks discord compiled, of 100 dumb teenage drama moves.
The list can be used for a lot of things, but an easy one is to roll d100 and go from there. For example, I rolled 25, and got “paint, egg, or sugar up someone’s car”. I could then ask “The student at that seat messed with another student’s car. Whose, and what happened?”
First: @garrett would you drop Hot Mess and Nono into the seating chart as you see fit? And can you link the fics that focus on their characters? I know we’re AU, but I want a head start on getting them right.
WHOEVER INTRODUCED PROBLEM CHILD to the class: give us some deets, please: names, pronouns, powers/playbook, please. (Or if it was a joke, just lemme know and we’ll zap them.)
Problem Child questions will be for @Dave and whoever came up with them.
If you need one of them to do something here’s a 1d6 oracle.
Emma 1: starts a fight; 2: talks shit about someone; 3: decides someone is her rival; 4: embroils a student in her schemes; 5: brings outside trouble to the school; 6: exposes a dark secret about a heroic student
Nono 1: writes fanfic about someone; 2: has to shut Emma’s latest shenanigans down; 3: needs a confidence boost about something; 4: acts as wingwoman or confidante to someone in need; 5: gushes enthusiastically about something weird; 6: has an episode and needs to be pulled out of it
Roy 1: gives some folksy but useful advice; 2: exaggerates a story while downplaying his own role in it; 3: is a little too honest for his own good; 4: accidentally breaks something, but apologizes sheepishly; 5: disappears for long stretches of time, asks for homework coverage; 6: intervenes in a fight in a rapid, brutal fashion
I marked him as a Scion. Make of that what you will.
Just to be transparent, I’m trying to work one student a time so we can build off what’s already gone in a bit. I’ve got lots of questions - enough to fire off stuff at everyone about EVERYONE, but if I did that everything would kind of be in a silo.
Mike might still be under the weather for a bit, so let’s shift to a different student.
HOT MESS:
@garrett What did Emma really mess up this summer, what evidence did they fake to get someone else in trouble for it (who was it, btw), and why haven’t you told anyone?
@Dave what did Emma do for your (either at this school or your last) that was nice for you, and didn’t ask for anything in return? (Yet)
During an assembly early in the year, Joe was being quietly heckled with whispered “Hey, monkey!” “Wanna banana?” and similar witticisms from a couple of older kids. Before he could lose his temper and done something that would have gone down on his record, Emma, sitting next to them, stood up, and yelled at them in a loud voice, “You calling him a monkey? You’re monkeys! We’re all monkeys! You’re the just rudest monkeys here!”
It got her in trouble (for interrupting the Headmaster’s address), and embarrassed Joe mightily, but it also quieted down that particular line of insult (the taunters ended up having a long talk with the Headmaster as well, which left them visibly shaken as well as saddled with a 75 page paper on hominid genetics), and Joe was quietly touched that she did it.