🐺Hard Times at Redwater High [LGBTQ+/BIMPOC/Newbie friendly]🩸

About the adventure

It's your first day of senior year at Redwater High, the only high school in this dying, mining town deep in the Appalachian mountains. Chances are you were born here and many expect you to live and die here too, just like those who came before you. Your body is changing and the darker things in this world call out to you hungrily. But who are you really? • Someone who has accepted that fate? Comforted by well-planted roots that gives a stability the rest of your life doesn't. Or • Someone with the foolish ambition of escaping Redwater's grip? Ready to burn it all down and start anew somewhere far away from here. Regardless of which side of the line you find yourself, Senior year is your last chance to right the tracks. ----------- Monster Hearts 2 by Avery Alder ----------- Monsterhearts 2 is a queer game about messy coming of age drama that's deeply intertwined with supernatural horror. Together we will create stories about seductive monsters, teenage angst, personal horror, and secret love triangles. When you play, you explore the terror and confusion of having a body that is changing without your permission. This is a Powered by the Apocalypse TTRRPG taking inspirations from works like Twilight, Buffy, Ginger Snaps, The Vampire Diaries, and The Craft. All you'll need are 2d6 and a desire to get messy (in a fun way)! ----------- Redwater Summary ----------- Redwater, Tennessee (Est. 1867) Population 1,356 Set deep within the pine forests of Tennessee and along the river still lovingly called Stag Creek is the town of Redwater. Everybody knows everybody in Redwater. It's the kind of place you find yourself born in, already wanting to get out--except you never do. It's dying a town with a history that runs as deep blood does its soil and it uses that history as a slowly failing life support. Attractions like the Oxford Mansion, the Redwater Mine, and Trinity Station are the only reasons anyone outside of Redwater and Grimsby (f*ck Grimsby by the way) knows the place exists. Tourism is what kept this place alive back in the 90's and early 00s but those days are gone. Now what was once a premier destination vacation for anyone looking to get a taste of the "most haunted hills in Appalachia" has been desiccated and left with the dregs having cut away at itself to sell to the highest bidder. And oddly enough, this new version of Redwater (a town once also known as Stag Creek before...the incident) is somehow closer to the truth of this place than it has ever been. Blood runs deep in this place, like magic does its soil. There have been stories of demons and ghosts haunting these lands ever since the first mining camp was settled here. Creatures lurking in the creek, waiting to pull you under. Whispers from the leaves, tempting you to climb higher than you should. The Forests surrounding Redwater aren't the kind of place you should travel alone, unless you know the territory.