Coming Soon: The Pack an Ares Game

Cobalt

@cirim13 They are considered Pack because Pack is Family and Family is Pack. That assumes you are adopted, married, or born into the Brunson family (or one of it’s off shoots).

If you’re not… Well then it might be a little bit weirder, a little bit harder to integrate into the family. But it could be an interesting character to play-- someone with a specialty that was needed so they employed someone outside of the family/pack, and now everyone is like ‘how much do we trust’ sort of thing.

Cobalt

@Wuff said in Coming Soon: The Pack an Ares Game:

Body Horror! Awesome!

How about mentally, you’ve scratched surface on the before, but after?

When shifted, is there anything left of the human mind or does it get subsumed in all that instinct of the beast coming through, the sense of releif palpable but after that I imagine it’s like tearing off a bandaid on the hair of your arm, it stings or hurts, but there’s a rush?

It looks like it should hurt, right? Because you are messily changing from human to animal, but it doesn’t hurt at all. Because at that point the beast/animal inside has taken over and it is getting free. So the human body no longer registers. It is more like breaking free of a paper mache mould than tearing off a bandaid.

How much of the human’s shaped brain’s instincts remain, things like a sense of loyalty, love? Do they remember any of it. How does the mind handle shifting back? I expect the return to a human shape will be similar in feel to going beast physically.

I think the younger the shapeshifter or the newer the less human they are. They train and learn and become more human like in their thinking in animal form (though still not completely human). Growing up a shapeshifter comes with all sorts of issues due to hormone changes and stuff. But if you’re bitten and you work at it within a year you’d remember everything you do when you shift and would have reasonable ability to use and apply logic.

Unless, of course, you take the Primal advantage. At which point you’re probably a little feral (maybe I should change the name from Primal to Feral).

Is shifting easier to deal with with age? Kids needing to be pinned down till they calm. Older shifters shake it off like wet fur but can feel the physical change more, the way someone might feel arthritis on a cold day?

Yes, the older you get the easier it is to control and deal with. There is no pain for the shapeshifter when they shift (unless there is something wrong with them, which is an option if someone wants).

Cobalt

Game will be permanently closed as of 3/30/2023.

Gasboy

@Cobalt That’s a bummer? What happened?

Pavel

@Gasboy said in Coming Soon: The Pack an Ares Game:

@Cobalt That’s a bummer? What happened?

Creepers making it untenable.

Artemis

@Cobalt Shit, I’m sorry to hear that. Was conceptualizing a char on there.

Cobalt

@Artemis I’m sorry about that! I know a lot of really good people are going to be let down by this.

I’d be happy to add you on discord so I can message you if/when (lets be honest it is going to be when) I decide to make something new. Or if you don’t use discord I can PM you on here.

Artemis

@Cobalt lol I already have you on discord! Messaged you there, but yeah would love to hear about anything you do in the future.

Jennkryst

Tentatively following along, too, never made it out of chargen. NEXT TIME!

Cobalt

FYI,

If anyone still needs to grab descs or finish anything up, I’ve been sick with some unnamed ear/nose/throat/chest cold for like ever now so have not bothered to take the game down.

So lets just give it until the end of April.