The Colonial News Bulletin
For thirty years, the Colonial News Bulletin has been the most trusted source for news throughout the Circinus Galaxy. Now, with the establishment of the first new colony since before the Homeworld War, the Bulletin will be on the ground, reporting on everything as it happens. Two of the senior editors of the Bulletin are here, with a rare team of dedicated full-time journalists. You’ll be covering everything, from politics and research to personal stories and the darker underbelly of the colony. It’s an intense job, and one you’re all ready and proud to tackle.
During the game, you will actually have access to a newsroom in which to write news stories and publish them via the communicators. All players will see these articles! So we encourage you to be actual journalists--track stories and plots, conduct interviews, and get the news out to the fledgling colony. And if your articles come out biased or inaccurate? Well, that’s just part of the drama. No one said your news had to be perfect--just interesting.
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1095024263943166/
Group Members:
T. Aurora ((Liza Jaye))
O. Lysa ((Steve McClellan))
A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman))
W. Nett ((Aaron Roan))
V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter))
N. Ransha ((Stephanie DeMane))
For thirty years, the Colonial News Bulletin has been the most trusted source for news throughout the Circinus Galaxy. Now, with the establishment of the first new colony since before the Homeworld War, the Bulletin will be on the ground, reporting on everything as it happens. Two of the senior editors of the Bulletin are here, with a rare team of dedicated full-time journalists. You’ll be covering everything, from politics and research to personal stories and the darker underbelly of the colony. It’s an intense job, and one you’re all ready and proud to tackle.
During the game, you will actually have access to a newsroom in which to write news stories and publish them via the communicators. All players will see these articles! So we encourage you to be actual journalists--track stories and plots, conduct interviews, and get the news out to the fledgling colony. And if your articles come out biased or inaccurate? Well, that’s just part of the drama. No one said your news had to be perfect--just interesting.
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1095024263943166/
Group Members:
T. Aurora ((Liza Jaye))
O. Lysa ((Steve McClellan))
A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman))
W. Nett ((Aaron Roan))
V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter))
N. Ransha ((Stephanie DeMane))
Player: Stephanie DeMane
Name: N. Ransha
Group: The Bulletin
Homeworld: The Colonies
Variant: Baseline
Character Coach: Rachel Simon ([email protected])
Description:
You have been on the edge of so much ugliness. You grew up on an outlying colony, with parents who cared deeply for you, and a sibling who was your best friend. Jole was kind, and played with you, and loved everyone they met. You knew their secret--they were an Innate. The family knew, but told no one. Out in the Colonies, fear ran hot. But the secret didn’t stay secret. As an adolescent, Jole told a friend, trusting that friend to stay silent.
The friend didn’t. In a span of days, the whole town knew. Suddenly everyone was whispering. Your sibling was a monster, your sibling was dangerous, your sibling would destroy the planet. It was ugly. It was scary. Jole tried to run away from home at one point, to keep the rest of the family safe, but came home a week later, worried about getting attacked by strangers on the street. Then your family was approached by a stranger, who claimed to represent a special school for Innates, where Jole could be safe. You had a family discussion, late into the night, but Jole said they wanted to go. You were sure Jole didn’t, but Jole was too good. Jole didn’t want to stay behind and risk the rest of you getting hurt for them.
Jole left, taken away to the mysterious school. You never saw them again, or even heard from them. But even with them gone, the ugliness, the hate, it stayed. Other kids treated you like you were tainted, like you might also be an Innate. For a time you feared you might be, and hated yourself for that fear. But your powers never manifested--just loneliness and frustration. You wanted to leave your tiny colony, but you had no real path to escape.
That changed when an offworlder came to visit. V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter)) was traveling the Colonies, exploring everything. The two of you became friends, and Amaranth showed you their travel journals. They were brilliant, and you convinced Amaranth to publish them in the Bulletin. Not long after that, Amaranth pushed you in return, and got you writing for the Bulletin as well. You left your small world for the first time, and started traveling the galaxy, writing and seeing what there was to see. You love writing for the Bulletin, and your friendship with Amaranth has stayed strong throughout that. You befriended another writer, A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman)), who hails from a similarly isolated colony, Edge.
You primarily focused on the cause of Innate rights, telling the stories of anonymous Innates throughout the galaxy. Through that, you met R. Sano La ((Melissa Milton)) and L. Nexus ((Gav White)), a pair of Innates who are working to create a secret support network of like-minded Innates throughout the galaxy. It’s a fledgling group that Sano La and Nexus call the Weave, but you have high hopes for its future. You’ve helped them find more Innates to bring into the Weave, like the Innate xenolinguist, M. Arno Ka ((April Padilla)).
There’s still a great unsolved mystery of your life, though. You’ve tried time and again to find out what happened to Jole. When you were finally offworld, you went looking for that school, but it didn’t seem to exist. You couldn’t find any record of it, any hint of it, nothing. It had been scrubbed from all the records. But you were determined, and you kept digging. You found places where they had scrubbed too well, people who were suspiciously unwilling to talk to you, and from the strange gaps and elisions, you’ve begun to suspect what was really going on. You think the school was a front for some kind of experimental research lab. What’s more, you’ve caught wind through some underground connections mentioned by other writers for the Bulletin that there’s a call out through the bounty hunting networks for some runaway human experiments. Could they have escaped from the facility? Might Jole be among them? You don’t know, but you have to find out.
Light: You care very deeply about the cause of Innate rights, and will stand up for them (and invite them to join the Weave). You’re a diligent researcher and a good friend to those around you. You have a strong sense of journalistic ethics.
Dark: When you get scared, you get angry. You have a lot of bitterness towards much of society, and can’t understand why people are so afraid of those who mean them no harm.
Questions:
L. Nexus ((Gav White))
M. Arno Ka ((April Padilla))
R. Sano La ((Melissa Milton))
A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman))
V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter))
Name: N. Ransha
Group: The Bulletin
Homeworld: The Colonies
Variant: Baseline
Character Coach: Rachel Simon ([email protected])
Description:
You have been on the edge of so much ugliness. You grew up on an outlying colony, with parents who cared deeply for you, and a sibling who was your best friend. Jole was kind, and played with you, and loved everyone they met. You knew their secret--they were an Innate. The family knew, but told no one. Out in the Colonies, fear ran hot. But the secret didn’t stay secret. As an adolescent, Jole told a friend, trusting that friend to stay silent.
The friend didn’t. In a span of days, the whole town knew. Suddenly everyone was whispering. Your sibling was a monster, your sibling was dangerous, your sibling would destroy the planet. It was ugly. It was scary. Jole tried to run away from home at one point, to keep the rest of the family safe, but came home a week later, worried about getting attacked by strangers on the street. Then your family was approached by a stranger, who claimed to represent a special school for Innates, where Jole could be safe. You had a family discussion, late into the night, but Jole said they wanted to go. You were sure Jole didn’t, but Jole was too good. Jole didn’t want to stay behind and risk the rest of you getting hurt for them.
Jole left, taken away to the mysterious school. You never saw them again, or even heard from them. But even with them gone, the ugliness, the hate, it stayed. Other kids treated you like you were tainted, like you might also be an Innate. For a time you feared you might be, and hated yourself for that fear. But your powers never manifested--just loneliness and frustration. You wanted to leave your tiny colony, but you had no real path to escape.
That changed when an offworlder came to visit. V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter)) was traveling the Colonies, exploring everything. The two of you became friends, and Amaranth showed you their travel journals. They were brilliant, and you convinced Amaranth to publish them in the Bulletin. Not long after that, Amaranth pushed you in return, and got you writing for the Bulletin as well. You left your small world for the first time, and started traveling the galaxy, writing and seeing what there was to see. You love writing for the Bulletin, and your friendship with Amaranth has stayed strong throughout that. You befriended another writer, A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman)), who hails from a similarly isolated colony, Edge.
You primarily focused on the cause of Innate rights, telling the stories of anonymous Innates throughout the galaxy. Through that, you met R. Sano La ((Melissa Milton)) and L. Nexus ((Gav White)), a pair of Innates who are working to create a secret support network of like-minded Innates throughout the galaxy. It’s a fledgling group that Sano La and Nexus call the Weave, but you have high hopes for its future. You’ve helped them find more Innates to bring into the Weave, like the Innate xenolinguist, M. Arno Ka ((April Padilla)).
There’s still a great unsolved mystery of your life, though. You’ve tried time and again to find out what happened to Jole. When you were finally offworld, you went looking for that school, but it didn’t seem to exist. You couldn’t find any record of it, any hint of it, nothing. It had been scrubbed from all the records. But you were determined, and you kept digging. You found places where they had scrubbed too well, people who were suspiciously unwilling to talk to you, and from the strange gaps and elisions, you’ve begun to suspect what was really going on. You think the school was a front for some kind of experimental research lab. What’s more, you’ve caught wind through some underground connections mentioned by other writers for the Bulletin that there’s a call out through the bounty hunting networks for some runaway human experiments. Could they have escaped from the facility? Might Jole be among them? You don’t know, but you have to find out.
Light: You care very deeply about the cause of Innate rights, and will stand up for them (and invite them to join the Weave). You’re a diligent researcher and a good friend to those around you. You have a strong sense of journalistic ethics.
Dark: When you get scared, you get angry. You have a lot of bitterness towards much of society, and can’t understand why people are so afraid of those who mean them no harm.
Questions:
- Do you wish you had Innate powers? Why or why not?
- How do you feel about the Weave? Is it a noble project, or a futile one?
- What’s the most interesting or controversial story you’ve ever published?
- What do your friends mean to you?
- Have you ever been back to visit your home colony or your parents?
L. Nexus ((Gav White))
M. Arno Ka ((April Padilla))
R. Sano La ((Melissa Milton))
A. Vendette ((Shana Hausman))
V. Amaranth ((Pythe Courter))
