Alicja (and Artemida and Mara, see bio)So we're after Session Zero for a new #TSL #ThirstySwordLesbians campaign.
And it looks like it may be FUN.
Two players so far, here's what we came up with after the big brainstorm.
We went for an urban fantasy setting with a very comedic, very goofy, very campy and very action-heavy tone. The campaign will revolve around a queer sex club that caters to all sorts of fun weirdness and provides sexy entertainment in addition to being friendly to relative normies.
The two characters are an adventurous to the point of being an adrenaline junkie lady who's basically in charge of new talent acquisition, but also implicitly in charge of finding vulnerable people and rescuing them to relative safety because the club is a safe haven for all sorts of freaks, both in the "rejected by society" sense and in the "this is urban fantasy, so there's plenty of space for unsubtle allegories for queerness" sense.
One of her rescues is the other PC, a former/escaped member of an oppressive coven of trad-Catholic evil magic nuns. Still retaining the "sexy nun" campy absurdity. She's absolutely star struck with a new life of sexual freedom but also has very weird ideas of what that actually entails.
The two NPCs that act as a face for the club and the community it represents is a performer who is a massive diva and demands that all player characters basically advertise her shows 24/7, and a belleaguered head security officer lady who basically wants everyone to leave her alone.
There are, as usual in TSL campaigns, two major antagonists that are a stand-in for oppression, patriarchy and heteronormativity and all that kind of stuff.
One is a pimp who is extremely charismatic and an almost supernaturally genius person who wants to discredit the club because it provides freely the pleasures he means to profit from.
He also has an army of loyal (well, "loyal") but implicitly redeemable sex workers who fight with swords, with very Kill Bill-esque feel to the whole thing.
The major direct antagonist will be his bookkeeper who has the distinction of being the only woman the pimp (who's a sleaze, obviously) doesn't flirt with or pursue.
The second antagonist will be a governmental agency of basically health/sanitation inspectors who carry swords for no adequately explained reason and have a secret mad sciencey chemical lab where they ostensibly test samples but which they kidnap people into.
They want the club shut down.
Yes, it's going to be WEIRD I think xD