The Planet

Reader interactions will take the form of text polls. I'll post a question with some options at the bottom of each update, which will look like this:

Poll #0
Is this a real poll?
[ ] No
[ ] Also no
[ ] Still nope

When you reply, all you need to do is indicate which option you want to pick. A couple suggestions:

Quote the poll with your choice marked

Poll #0
Is this a real poll?
[ ] No
[X] Also no
[ ] Still nope

Write in the poll # and your choice in your reply
Poll #0: Also no

(Anything that makes it easy for me to tell which choice you're voting for, works.)

If a poll has an option of WRITE-IN, that means it's open-ended and you can write in your own options. If it doesn't have a WRITE-IN option, write-in votes will be ignored.

If you change your vote, EDIT YOUR ORIGINAL POST. Please don't post again with your new vote, it'll just make things harder for me to count. (A post mentioning that you changed your vote to let other people you might be discussing the poll with know about the change is fine, but don't vote again in that post. Edit the first one and mention that you edited it.)

There are four types of people that characters can be; two of them are what are known as wisp-kin. Wisps are magical entities that are naturally "born" of any sufficiently dense concentration of a "natural element" (Light, shadows, water, mist, trees, dirt, concrete, etc.) - and wisp-kin are people who share the nature of a wisp.

Vampires are the result of a wisp bonding with a corpse. (Technically it can be any animal corpse, but the human ones are generally most successful due to the higher cognitive abilities.) They don't have their own life-force to support their physical form, so they need to consume that of other living beings by drinking their blood. They don't have any memories from before they were "born", but have most of the internalized knowledge of the body's former inhabitant.

Witches are the result of a wisp bonding with a live human being. (Wisps can bond with other living creatures as well but they all generally develop their own bestiographical or cryptid records.) The wisp essentially becomes the witch's familiar, and can either exist in a semi-materialized form or fuse its power into its witch, at the will of the witch.

There are also entities known as spirits, which are wisps who become powerful and complex enough to develop sapience on their own. I don't have mechanics built for playing a Spirit, so that's not an option for now.

Wispers are humans who have learned to manipulate wisps to work for them. The method can and usually does vary widely from one Wisper to another.

And the fourth type of person is simply a human, with no magical ability whatsoever but who somehow wound up behind the Veil with the supernaturals.

The team will have four characters, each of which fits one of the following roles.

The Hacker: Computers, AI, and technical infiltration expert. Top skills: Hack, Notice, Burglary

The Hitter: Big guns and the other kind of big guns. Top skills: Athletics, Physique, Shoot

The Investigator: What it says on the tin. Good at finding out information. Top skills: Academics, Investigate, Stealth

The Negotiator: Skilled at manipulation, knows everyone or at least can convincingly fake it. Top skills: Deceive, Empathy, Rapport

Wisper

The Negotiator

Dee. Short and pudgy. Dark mori.