Hunter!!

So, I'm running Hunter for Savannah and Paul. I've never done a game for two people before (I don't know if I've run for fewer than five or six, now that I think about it) and I think Hunter will do well with fewer PC's.

I ran their imbuing last night. I actually typed out my plans beforehand, so I'm going to post them here with small adjustments for Paul and Savannah's reactions.

It’s winter in Boston. A thin layer of gray, frozen sludge lines the streets and sidewalks. Darkness envelopes the city every night around 6pm. Both Savannah and Paul work at a marketing company, they’ve seen each other around, but aren’t friendly. Savannah is an intern, and Paul is a programmer. On Friday, they are both forced to work four hours of overtime, which gets them out of the office at 9pm.

At 7pm, Savannah turns around and find a little girl staring at her. She looks to be about 8 years old. Her hair is up in pigtails and she’s wearing blue jeans and a little green polo shirt. She smiles shyly at Savannah and asks "What are you?"

Savannah calls security, who call her honey and don't believe that there's really a little girl harassing her. She looks back toward the little girl, but she's vanished.

A few moments later, she sees a reflection in her computer screen. After a few minutes, the shape solidifies into a spider. It’s hanging directly behind her shoulder, looming larger and larger as she stares at it. She dives under her desk and comes out the other side. There's nothing there. She tries to pull herself together by going and getting a drink at the water cooler and splashing some of the water on her face, but a few minutes later, back at her desk, she feels a prickling on her neck. Eight tiny legs pull at the edge of her earlobe.

At 7:30, Paul turns to find a little girl standing behind him in his cubicle. She is staring at him like she’s trying to read his mind. He gets chills as thier eyes meet, then she speaks, and her high, sweet voice puts him at ease. She says hello, and Paul talks to her for a few minutes. She also asks Paul what he is, and he starts with vertibrate and works down. Her stomache rumbles, and she says that she hasn't eaten for a while. Paul asks what she likes, and she says, "Sweet things." He offers her a Mountain Dew, but when he turns back to give it to her, she has vanished.

As he continues working, he hears a low buzzing, like the sound of flies buzzing around a rotting corpse. His skin begins to crawl.

As the hours crawl by, the sensations recur and grow stronger. By the time it’s finally time to head home, they are both on edge.

Savannah works on the sixth floor, and Paul on the fourth. Savannah enters the elevator. When it stops on the fourth floor, her heart rate jumps dramatically. But when Paul walks in, she feels strangely comforted. Paul also feels relieved to see Savannah on the elevator. The sensations fade as they stand together.

The elevator opens into the parking garage. There are only two cars in sight on opposite sides and different floors of the garage.

When they are halfway across the lot, the sensations come back with a vengeance.

Savnanah can hear the skitter of a thousand of spider legs scuttling toward her. She turns to see the floor covered in a moving carpet of shimmery bodies. She turns to run, but finds that they are surrounding her. She screams and tries to run for her car. But in an instant, they are at her feet, crawling up her legs, under her clothes. She tries to swat them away, but for every one she swipes away two more appear. They reach her waist, her breasts, her shoulders. They swarm up over her face and tangle in her hair. Her mouth is open to scream and they fill her mouth. She can feel the tiny hairs on their legs prickling her tongue. Then, anger rushes through her being. She can feel it washing away her fear and panic. The spiders vanish and she can see the little girl standing in the middle of the garage.

The buzzing fills Paul's ears, and he can feel flies crawling all over his skin. They are under his clothes. They are in his ears, in his nose, pushing at the corners of his eyes. He opens his mouth to scream, and they swarm in there and down his throat. Thousands of tiny bodies fill his mouth, choking him. He can taste the rotten flesh that they live on. Then suddenly, something in him wakes up. He can feel it sharpening his senses, honing his sense of reality. The flies vanish. He turns around, and he sees the little girl standing in the middle of the parking lot. She looks stunned when their eyes meet.


Both notice that something is wrong with her. At first they notice only the feeling of wrong-ness radiating from her. Then they notice little details. There’s a red glow radiating from her eyes, and they feel a sort of chill emanating from her direction. She grins at them, and they glimpse pearly fangs.

Paul steps forward and asks her what her game is. He presses her about what she is, but gets only the enigmatic answer of "A creature of the night." Savannah threatens the girl, and she threatens back. The little girl seems both delighted and intrigued. Eventually, Paul and Savannah go back to their cars. Again, after they look away, the girl is gone.

Savannah drives to a bar to get a much-needed drink. Paul follows her in and after she snaps at him, he insists on giving her his phone number. He tells her to call when she can't sleep tonight. Savannah stays and knocks back a few more drinks before heading home and watching a Hallmark movie with the volume blasting. Paul goes home and hits the internet, finding an intriguing site called Hunternet. He glances out his window once, in the middle of the night, and sees the little girl standing in a pool of light under a lamp post. She waves at him, then steps back into the darkness and vanishes.