Fleshing out the Nobilis game: This is slightly expanded from the stuff I put on the game's wiki, for all my readers who like roleplaying and/or reading about roleplaying.
About six months ago, Cole's mother Nikky moved to New York with her boyfriend. She promised to call Cole after a week of settling in and pay for a bus ticket so that Cole could come and join them. Cole is still waiting for that call.
She managed to live on her savings for a few months, and had a garage sale or two of things from the dingy apartment she still lives in, but eventually the money ran out.
Cole's best friend Candy told her about an easy way to make big money. Just go to the Mermaid bar all dressed up and wait for a guy to suggest something. Cole really didn't want to but didn't have very much choice. With no family that she knows of and no other way to earn rent money, Cole sold herself about four times before her and Candy got in the SUV with the wrong guys.
The wrong guys being the guys who kidnap girls and sacrifice them to Bloody Mary. Nasty. They were inches away from doing that very thing when a different mystic beasty showed up instead and saved Cole. She also killed the dudes who were being nasty...Ragtag soothed Cole and offered to take care of her, make her Ragtag's child.
Desperate for love, acceptance and shelter Cole agreed to Ragtag's offer quite readily. Cole became the demi-goddess Power of Loss.
It is only after you have lost everything that you can truly be *anything*
Scary stuff. Very emotional to play someone like that. Cole is based on Lilya from Lilya 4eva by the way. Just taking a different fork in the road, hopefully won't have such an awful ending as the movie.
Posted by jenni at March 26, 2004 09:25 PM