Fate 13 - Vacation, pt.2

(Content warnings: police, grief, ghosts) Mysteries abound as the Hunters board the HMS Marionette. Keely meets a fan. Jamie plays a game of chess. Henrietta confronts her past. Maggie makes contact with the other side. CHARACTERS Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/Him) Keeley, The Expert (She/Her) - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/Them) Henrietta, The Monstrous (She/Her) - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/Them) Maggie, The Spellslinger (She/Her) - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They) Jamie Jesigo (He/him) - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/Them) NPCs Jordan Jr "Jojo" Jesigo (He/they) - Henrietta's youngest child. Adopted child of Henrietta and The Sailor. Currently residing at the M.R.S. Montessori. Possible Myriad. Xilin (He/him) - An enigmatic figure who used to work for M.R.S. When presenting as a human, looks like a tall, lanky, handsome Chinese man with short black hair and gold-painted nails. Dressed very hip. When not in human form, looks like a brilliant, reflective golden-colored giraffe with scales, cloven hooves, and antlers. Martin Graves (He/him) - Monster-hunting Chosen One who has already fulfilled his prophecy. A white guy in his early 20s. Looks kinda like Elijah wood, with short mussed brown hair. One of his feet was badly burned, leading him to walk with a cane. Last seen at the Silky & The Solutions concert. Jenny Wessler (She/her) - Contact of Jamie Jesigo. Worried about her grandfather. Lorelei (She/her) - Siren and opera singer. Larger blonde woman originally from Germany. One of Jamie’s contacts. Henry Sweezle (He/him) - A guest from the Dirge, somehow involved in the events there. White man in his 30s or 40s with a whining voice and a rat-like face. Was on his way to VaccuCon, but the Hunters stopped him in Denver. Carly Guarin (She/Her) - 16 year old Latina trans-woman. Keeley's biggest fan. Poppy Graves (She/her) - A woman just touched with wrinkles, with shoulder-length light brown hair and kind coffee-colored eyes framed by a pair of rounded, dark blue glasses. Martin’s mother. Calvin Graves (He/him) - A tall man wearing a hawaiian shirt over a lanky frame. He's bald, with a tight salt and pepper mustache over a mouth that is crooked into a constant expression of endearing, bemused apology. Martin’s father. Theresa Graves (She/her) - 30 year old white woman. Dark brown, bobbed hair. Tanktop. Martin’s oldest sister. Charlie Graves (She/her) - 27 years old white woman. Frizzy black hair. Glasses. Brown eyes. Always has a book. Martin’s middle sister. Jordan Jesigo (He/him) - The Sailor. Henrietta's former lover/captor, and head of M.R.S. The Speaker (He/him) - You know him, he swear you've seen his face on the news at least a handful of times, maybe splashed across a press release, or his name listed prominently besides the words "Executive Producer". He's famous, powerful, rooted in a legacy of old money, with a voice that makes the mezzanine feel comfortably close and a smile that has launched a thousand business ventures. Leader of VaccuCon. ORGANIZATIONS M.R.S. AKA Myriad Relocation Services - A mysterious non-governmental organization tasked with investigating supernatural occurrences and relocating monsters/cryptids who are risk of human discovery or interference. They have field agents scattered throughout the United States and, presumably, the world. Follow us on Twitter @pestcontrolpod Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop RPG podcast produced in association with Queuetimes (@_queuetimes). Our first season was played using “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. Season one of Pest Control - “Fate” - follows a group of found-family monster Hunters as they set off on a journey across the United States, dealing with the creatures they encounter and drawing ever nearer to the end of the road… Check out Wojciech Golczewski's music: https://wojciechgolczewski.bandcamp.com/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★