The Black Heart, ██████ ████, 1970 █████████ █████, Codenamed Saffron, meeting with ███████ Agent Saffron frowns, looking around the crowded room. The Black Heart, an ultramodern palace nestled in a confidential location in the middle of the desert, is neutral ground for spies, mercenaries and gangsters of all sorts, but though the mysterious host guarantees the safety of all who come here, it's generally best to make your stay short. Ignoring the moans of pleasure from the next room and refusing a drink from a passing waiter, Saffron approaches her target. "You have it?" She asks the masked figure sitting at one of the booths. "You have my money?" They ask, voice muffled and distorted. "Forensic accountants caught on to some of our offshore accounts. I have most of it." Saffron answers, her full lips a straight line. "Then you can work up the rest in kind. My room is upstairs - I'm sure you're already aware of which one." Saffron resists the urge to roll her eyes. How is it that this business always comes back to sex? "Fine. But I want to see it first." The faceless figure slides a Manila envelope across the tabletop. "There you are. All the relevant details I could find about this agent. Quite an impressive one, if you ask me." Saffron ignores the unasked-for opinion, opening the folder and beginning to read. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Information: Name: Codename: Gender: Age: Appearance/Pic: Background: Main area of operations: (The game's scope is international, but this is the city you're headquartered in. A good deal of your potential missions will be set here, and you'll have a home field advantage while you're here. This city may or may not be in the same country your agency is from.) Agency: Real Agency: (Only applicable if you're a double agent) Spoiler: Agency Samples Name: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Type: Government Agency Resources: Immense Reputation: Well known and infamous Goal: Maintain American hegemony worldwide, fight Soviet influence Name: Committee for State Security (KGB) Type: Government Agency Resources: Immense Reputation: Well known and infamous Goal: Solidify and expand the Warsaw Pact, erode American influence Name: Military Intelligence, Section 6 Type: Government Agency Resources: Large Reputation: Well known Goal: Maintain what's left of the British Empire Name: Bratva (Russian Mafia) Type: Crime Organisation Resources: Large Reputation: Infamous Goal: Infiltrate as many nations as possible through bribery, blackmail and force Name: Shogo Industrial Concern Type: Corporate Espionage Resources: Large Reputation: Not known to the general public Goal: To corrupt governments, hide the corporation's dirty laundry, and sabotage competitor companies Name: The Temple of Creation Type: Cult Resources: Middling Reputation: Secret Goal: To prepare the world for the coming of █████ Spoiler: Player-Created Agency Template This is for those who want to design their own agency rather than pick an existing one. Feel free to be creative and make whatever kind of organisation you want. The only real limit is that it should be the kind of organisation that has an international reach. Organisation Logo: (Optional - can be an image or just a description) Name: Type: Resources: (Organisations with more resources can obviously throw their weight around more, but the bigger an org is, the smaller and less important of a cog you are within it.) Reputation: (Well known agencies struggle more with secrecy, but their name means they can throw their weight around. Secret organisations struggle to intimidate or make deals, since no one knows who they are.) Goal: (What is this organisation trying to achieve? Can be something very general, like protecting a nation's interests, or something very specific.) Status: (Either a field agent who carries out missions solo, or a station chief, who leads a small team of agents.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assets and Liabilities: Spoiler: Assets and Liabilities Explained Assets and Liabilities are traits, ancillaries and objects that make things easier or more difficult. Each asset and liability will either raise of lower your score. The final score should be zero. You have free rein to make your own assets and liabilities - I'll let you know how much of a positive or negative score they'll have based on how beneficial or detrimental they are. Spoiler: Asset List - Not exhaustive, you can make your own Shootist (+1) - You're either a combat veteran, or you've taken a lot of firearms training. Blademaster (+1) - You're skilled with a knife, but only in matters of business Fist Fighter (+1) - You know how to fight without a weapon Deft Feet (+1) - You're good at sneaking around Offshore Accounts (+1 for each account) - You have one or more sizeable supplies of money you can access independently and anonymously. This is your money, rather than cash given to you by your agency, so you can spend it freely, but these accounts can be discovered and frozen or stolen if you're not careful. Each account is separate, meaning that if one is compromised, the others remain safe. Hidden Base (+2) - Secreted in an area you know well is an incredibly hard to find haven, where you can shake off any pursuers before hiding away safely. Hidden Fortress (+3) - This haven is just as secret as the hidden base, but in case someone does find it, this one is equipped with all manner of silent alarms, cameras and death traps, turning any intruders literally into mincemeat. Fame: (+1) - The world knows you as someone other than a spy. Maybe you're a politician, or an entertainer, or some kind of activist. Being recognisable can cause problems, but it's remarkably effective for getting excuses to go into hard to reach places, and gives you access to all manner of contacts. Honeypot: (+3) - Most spies find getting laid pretty easy. You, however, know how to tease someone, make them obsess over you, want to please you, and eventually perhaps, even betray their cause for you. Mentor: (+3) - The spy who handpicked, recruited and trained you has retired and now has a leadership role in the agency. Only the two of you know the specifics of your relationship Polyglot (+1) - You can speak a multitude of languages - you're confident you'll know at least one language regardless of where you're posted. Babel (+3) - Not only do you speak a multitude of languages, you're so fluent in all of them you can easily pass as a native speaker. Even locals have no idea you're a foreigner if you don't tell them. Spoiler: Liabilities Family: (+2) - You have a family. Maybe a child, maybe an elderly parent, maybe a brother and sister. Either way, they're a vulnerability. Your agency protects their identity and has someone watching over them, but nonetheless, they're a threat. Civilian Love: (+1) - Against your better judgement, you met someone who isn't in the life and fell for them. You wish you could just forget them, but you just can't bring yourself to break it off. Trying to balance your love life with your job is stressful, and your beloved is potentially in danger. Rival Love: (+3) - You did the most foolish thing one can do - you fell for a spy from a hostile agency. Inter-agency Blackmail: (+2) - Maybe it was a screw up on the job, or something you weren't supposed to do outside of it, but you're being blackmailed by someone in your own agency. Rival Blackmail: (+3) - An outside agency has dirt on you that could potentially cripple your career. Perv: (+2) - You have an overactive libido and you're vulnerable to seduction. You have a hard time saying 'no' to anyone you find attractive, and don't think as clearly when you're horny. Psycho: (+2) - You like to do things in a...less than discreet way. When you're stressed out on a mission, you sometimes lose control and go guns blazing. Pacifist: (+2) - You hate violence, and aren't very good at hurting people. Liar Liar: (+2) - Unlike most spies, you're just not that great at lying. Maybe you stammer and get nervous, or maybe you're just a bit too intense, but you suffer a malus when trying to lie. Rival Blackmail: (+3) - An outside agency has dirt on you that could potentially cripple your career. Double Agent: (+2) - You're a traitor to your organisation, working for someone else. Your life is a tense game of cat and mouse as you try not to get caught. Triple Agent: (+3) - You're loyal to your organisation, but you're pretending to be a traitor gain intel on another agency. The stress is even higher - not only do you have the responsibilities of spycraft, you have to convince the other organisation you're truly on their other side, while not going too far and actually betraying your agency. Manchurian Candidate: (+4) - Long ago, you were captured on a mission. They strapped you to a chair, overwhelming your senses with light and sound. Luckily, you managed to escape before they were able to do anything serious. If only these damn numbers would stop popping up in your head all the time... Asset and Liability Score: (For keeping track) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts: (Assets and liability characters, such as family, mentor or lover): Name: Appearance/Pic: Bio: Relationship: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kinks: (Sexual scenes and tropes you want included) Banned Kinks: Expectations: (Non-sexual expectations of what the game will be. Hardcore espionage, lots of action, how common sex should be, etc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (For those playing station chiefs, a new section will be released soon to allow you to customise your team of spies. Please let me know if there are any questions or if I've missed anything/made a mistake on the sheet)
"Rival Blackmail" is listed twice: Anyway, good luck with the game. Won't be joining at this time, but will keep an eye on it.
Personal Information: Name: Olena Stepanova Codename: "Vixen" = "Lysytsya" Gender: Female Age: 23 Appearance/Pic: Olena "Lysytsya" Stepanova taking a moment of levity with a comrade before beginning a politically deniable operation Background: Olena Stepanova was taken in as an orphan in the Soviet Boarding School system, presumed to be a runaway from eastern Ukraine. She was noted as being sociable, athletic, and diligent, the only marks against her by the system being the occasional involvements in physical altercations. As she grew into a young woman, the system dryly noted her increasing interest in not just men, but almost anyone around her. State educators suspected that she had managed to gain access to illicit material that always seemed to circulate among the little black market maintained by the student body, exciting her imagination and filling her head with the increasing desire for "Free Love" from the West. However, despite it all, she was judged to be a Model Socialist, reveling in the collective feeling of being a member of Communist youth groups and participating in civil government programs to serve the State. The KGB got to her first. Olena quickly proved she possessed a natural aptitude for the use of firearms and hand-to-hand fighting, revealing her father had been a veteran of the Second World War to her impressed instructors. She also proved she had a head for language, not only solidifying her grasp of Russian, but also the English tongue of their American and Commonwealth rivals. However, only a couple years into her time with the KGB, she was captured by West German Federal Intelligence Service (or the Bundesnachrichtendienst) while on a layover Ramstein to the United States, intercepted before she could begin her mission to infiltrate a Ukrainian separatist organization. The BND handed her over to the CIA, ensuring the KGB could not so easily regain their lost asset as the Western forces conspired to turn her against the Soviet Union. Olena had been too young to learn or form strong opinions about Ukrainian statehood, her education within the State Boarding Schools tainted by misinformation about just how Ukraine had ended up under the auspices of a Russian-dominated Soviet Union. She was swiftly deprogrammed due to a mixture of exposure to the Holodomor and speaking with older Ukrainians who had escaped the Soviet Union. Turned by the CIA, Olena's "holding facility" in Germany was conveniently leaked to the KGB, who launched a rescue operation into the "compromised" facility to extract their asset with minimal overt action and no loss of life... Now the Vixen will need to choose her true allegiance. Main area of operations: Kyiv, Ukraine Agency: KGB Real Agency: CIA Assets and Liabilities: Perv: (+2) - You have an overactive libido and you're vulnerable to seduction. You have a hard time saying 'no' to anyone you find attractive, and don't think as clearly when you're horny. Double Agent: (+2) - You're a traitor to your organization, working for someone else. Your life is a tense game of cat and mouse as you try not to get caught. Shootist (-1) - You're either a combat veteran, or you've taken a lot of firearms training. Fist Fighter (-1) - You know how to fight without a weapon. Deft Feet (-1) - You're good at sneaking around. Polyglot (-1) - You can speak a multitude of languages - you're confident you'll know at least one language regardless of where you're posted. Asset and Liability Score: Perv (+2) Double Agent (+2) = 4 / Shootist (-1) Deft Feet (-1) Fist Fighter (-1) Polyglot (-1) = 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kinks: Non/dub con, BDSM, group sex, primal partners, musk, spanking, forced stripping, pretty much anything with power dynamics involved. Banned Kinks: Anything involving bodily functions outside of reproduction, explicit depictions of hardcore torture, bloodplay, knifeplay, basically anything unsanitary and/or unenjoyable to the sub. Expectations: As far as the non-sexual side of things are concerned, I think I'm good with anything and everything. I've developed Olena as more of a Metal Gear Solid/Splinter Cell kind of infiltrator/commando, rather than the disguise-savvy Agent 47/Hitman type. She can be as stealthy or badass as is required by the plot. Speaking of "plot," if it makes sense for a sex scene to occur, let's do it. However, I think the biggest advantage the "spy" theme has in erotic writing is the potential for temptation - that is, the danger of failure shouldn't just remain in the realm of physical threats, but also the temptation to fall, to fail, to submit. To that end, the Perv liability should definitely get a lot of use out of it, maybe represented by some dice rolls? However you want to handle it, I'm here for the ride.
Great character! Yeah, that's more or less what I was thinking with the perv liability. Opposed roles with a malus when someone's trying to seduce her - though of course it depends on her type
I'm currently doing the section chief sheet - just have to sort out some mechanical kinks. Hoping to have it finished sometime soon assuming nothing comes up irl. The first post of the game thread should be up soon after that.
Section Sheet: Points: 500 Section name: Emblem: (Optional - feel free to use a photo, or a description.) Size and number of underlings (Underlings are not just contacts, but active agents working under you) Level 1 = 1 Person highest member rank D (No cost) Level 2 = 3 people highest member rank C (25 points) Level 3 = 5 people highest member rank B (50 points) Level 4 = 7 people highest member rank A (75 points) Level 5 = 10 people highest member rank S (100 points) Section Base: Your headquarters and the center of your operations. Located in or near your base city, the base is a secret refuge from whence you can plan and organise your operations, and where your agents will rest their heads - though you may very well still reside somewhere else. Base Level: Level 1 (50 points) is a small building with enough space for 2 traits. Level 2 (100 points) is slightly bigger, with 3 traits, and Level 3 (200 points) has 4 traits. Base Pic: (Optional) Base Traits (These are ideas, but you can make your own): - Well situated (50 points): Your base is nestled deep in the heart of the city, near tourist hubs and government buildings. Your base more or less can't be assaulted with outright violence due to the level of police attention it would bring. (Mutually Exclusive with - Rural (50 points): Your base is on acreage outside of the city, and the privacy it affords you means that you've been able to rig the surrounding wilderness with cameras, booby traps and motion detectors, and your isolation means that a fight shouldn't bring police attention. - Armory (50 points): A secure area where you can store all sorts of weapons, modify them, repair them, and properly file down serial numbers and make them untraceable - False Front (50 points): A working, operating business in the front of the building. The false front provides a buffer between your operation and the public, and gives an excuse for why people would be coming and going. [] Write in: Type of business (level of detail optional) - Interrogation Room (50 points): A well equipped, ventilated and sterile chamber for extracting information, filled with tools of the owner's choice. - Cryptography Lab (50 points): A room filled with prototype computing equipment to help decipher and decode encrypted messages. - Vehicle Bay (50 points): Build and customize spy cars, motorcycles, drones, or submarines.May unlock faster travel, infiltration methods, or escape options. - Dojo (50 points): A large room equipped with training mats, dummies and racks filled with various melee weapons, blunted and padded to lower lethality, where agents can train to improve their hand-to-hand and melee weapon skills. - Firing range (50 points): A long soundproofed chamber with a range where agents can train to improve their ranged weapon skills - Entertaining Room (50 points): A cozy, intimate chamber with a bar and dining area. An air filtration system slowly filters in a subtle, scentless narcotic that relaxes the senses and puts a person in a better mood, giving the user a bonus to persuasion and manipulation checks held within. The filtration system can also be modified to pump aphrodisiac or knockout gasses. Agents: Spoiler: Agents Explained Here, you can design the preexisting agents that will be working under you. More can be recruited during the game. Rank E-S represents the skill of the agent. E&D ranks have only one skill, and maluses/no bonuses to rolls. C-ranks have one skill, and small bonuses to rolls. S-ranks have four skills, and major bonuses to rolls, etc. S-rank (required size level 5): 100 points A-rank (requires size level 4): 50 points B-rank (requires size level 3): 35 points C-rank (requires size level 2): 20 points D-rank: 10 points E-rank: 5 points Spoiler: Agent Sheet Name: Age: Appearance/Pic: Background Spoiler: Agent Sheet Recruitment: (How did you recruit this person - were they an agent assigned to you, or did you scout them yourself?) Rank: Skills (number depends on their rank) Connections/Allies: Are you friendly with someone powerful? Perhaps they owe you a favor? Or does your section have an alliance with them? 50 points: City connection, (Could be the mayor, a DA, the police chief etc) 100 points: International connection (ie, agency head, Interpol agent, celebrity)
