The Gossip
Description
Your thing: trendy fashion, tech, other people's relationships, or some other gossipy topic
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Your Weapon: hidden knives, a concealable crossbow, or an elegant revolver
Stats
At character creation, choose one spread:
| Charm | Cool | Brains | Brawn | |
| The Vizier | -1 | +1 | +2 | 0 |
| The Manipulator | +2 | +1 | 0 | -1 |
Moves
Start with Secretmonger and Glean Secrets, and choose one more:
Secretmonger
You have a stash of other people's secrets. For each secret, keep track of who it's about and whether you've shared it or not.
When someone tells you an important secret about themselves, they mark experience and you gain a string on them.
People other than you get +1 when acting on a secret you shared with them.
Glean Secrets
When you lock eyes with someone in the inner world and gaze into their soul, ask their player (or the GM if it's an NPC) any one question. They must answer truthfully.
Roll +Cool. On a 7-9, choose 1:
- The target learns a secret that you're keeping but never shared. It doesn't have to be about you. This still activates your Secretmonger move.
- You're hyper-focused on your target, and someone else takes advantage of it.
Cat got your tongue
When you command someone not to speak of something, roll +Cool.
- In the inner world, they are physically incapable of mentioning of the topic. This covers speech, writing, playing charades, and other meta-linguistic loopholes.
- In the outer world, if the target speaks of the topic, they take 1 harm.
On a 7-9, this lasts until the end of the episode. On a 10+, they can't bring it up until you say otherwise. Either way, the target can spend 1 string on you to end this effect immediately.
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Social Circle: ???
You are the Queen Bee's right hand, their eyes and ears, the guardian of the keys to their vault of secrets. Your social circle always includes a Queen Bee, whether they're a player character or an NPC. The rest of your friends are the other popular kids. Archetypes can include: rich kid, hot jock, cheerleader, teen influencer, and dumbass but hot.
The Queen Bee always has a string over you. If they don't have a string on you at the start of an episode, they gain a string on you. Whenever you tell someone a secret about the Queen Bee, or share something the Queen Bee explicitly told you not to share, gain a string on the Queen Bee.
Once per episode, name an NPC from the school. The GM will tell you a secret about them.
Recovery
Decompression - ... ! You can decompress through ... .
Lash Out - ... ! ... .
Advancement
Whenever you get to 5 experience, clear your experience and choose one. When you mark your 2nd and 4th advancements, increase one stat by +1.
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- Take a move from any playbook
- Take a move from any playbook