Zionna Brown, Fall 2024, Creative Example 1 Supplemental: Adventure Guide

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Cherise Farms

A Gamemaster Guide

Contents:

• Locations

• The Farm
• The House

• Magic System

• Cherise Tools
• Changeling Imitation

• Family

• Family Tree
• Immediate Family
• Extended Family

• Memory Finding Guide

• People
• The House
• The Farm

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The Farm:

The House:

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Cherise Magic Tools:

        Like many magic-bearing families, the Cherise’s have a style that is passed down genetically. It is linked back as far as Great Grandma Kara Cherise, who was from the Kingdom of Aster and married a farmer by the name of Jonas Cherise Sr.. It is unknown what Kara’s surname was before marriage.

        Because it is genetically passed, people who marry into the family do not inherit the trait. Some children may not get the trait, despite being genetically linked. This isn’t a very common occurrence.

        The Cherise Style magic manifests as farm tools, meant to aid the family in their success. Only one tool is assigned to a person, the tool they will be able to summon for the rest of their lives. Although, more than one person can have the same tool (ex. Porridge and Great Aunt Felicity share a spade.) These tools are usually strong and elegantly designed to perform their jobs efficiently. They also manifest as a bright green, though there are variations of this (The Talon’s have a dark green, while the Birch’s have teal. It can vary by person.)

        The tools manifest at a young age, around 4 to 6. If it isn’t found by then, it’s usually safe to assume that the child does not possess that style of magic. Sometimes, when first summoned, it will be a warped version of what it’s meant to be (i.e. bent, smaller than usual, with strange proportions). This will smooth out quickly over time.

The only case of this not happening is with Avril Cherise, whose tool manifests as a stick. A straight rod. This would be useful if other items could be affixed to the end like a shovel, hoe, or pitchfork head. These items do not stick, however, making this magic tool nearly useless. This is the first occasion of a tool lacking the elegance of design or aid to the family.

(The reason for this is that her magic style is imitation. Her changeling qualities and fae magic acclimated as soon as she was placed into the family for her to blend in seamlessly. Because Cherise magic is a genetic trait, there is no way that she would be able to inherit the tools the Cherise ancestors blessed the family with. A single green rod is all the imitation can muster.)

The Family Tree:

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The Immediate Family:

The family that lives at home on the main Cherise Farm.

Mama (Molly C.) - Current owner of Cherise Farms. A woman strong of heart and strong of arm. She does the heavy lifting and a lot of the fieldwork. She believes in standing her ground without compromise.

She will have a stern talking to with anyone she believes is dangerous to the family (the party is going to have a fun meeting with her I think. She will not like Justine). In the past, she used to deal with people she didn’t like with a hard punch but has grown since then.

Tool: Hand plow

• Strong, hearty, loves to laugh
• Stubborn
• Protective of the family

Pops (Char C.) - Marrying Molly Cherise was the best idea he ever had, and his folks agree. Being an only child, this large bustling family was an exciting change of pace.

        A bit more of a quiet and loving type, he usually sits back and watches conversations happen, putting in his two copper where it matters. He takes his time to think and plans out each year for the farm regarding layout, planting times, weather prediction, and general business.

        Tool: None

        

• Quiet and loving
• Thinker
• Always around Porridge, very protective of his young son. They go everywhere together

Cassie C. - (28) - Sarcastic and very open about her feelings, though is a little too embarrassed to admit that she’d like to find love like her older brother Sebastian. She believes it’s too late for that, despite only being 28.

Brutally honest, but has good enough sense to know when to stop joking. Loves to tease, unbiased on who she teases. No one is safe!

(Would LOVE to meet Isella and talk fashion!)

Tool: Hoe 

• Sarcastic, teasing, brutally honest
• Jealous type

Porridge C. - (4) - Changes his name every few months or whenever he has a whim. The name is always on theme with different kinds of soup. (Despite porridge not being a soup, you cannot tell him otherwise.)

Carries around a bucket to hold things he likes, and wears it on his head sometimes when it’s empty. Started talking before turning 2, a quick learner! Helps the family plant seeds, his favorite part.

Pops is very protective of Porridge. Wherever he goes, he follows close behind. Doesn’t keep him from the natural dangers of being a child (falling, touching things he shouldn’t, heavy stuff), but rather keeps an eye on him. He doesn’t want to lose another child to the forest.

Tool: Spade

• In his own little world
• Smart learner, talks a lot
• Carries things in his bucket, and wears it on his head sometimes

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The Visiting Family:

Currently staying at the Cherise family home on the farm!

Sebastian’s Family:

Sebastian C. - (33) - A quieter sibling of Avril, he takes after his father. He loves to spend his alone time contemplating and reading. His “alone-time walks” led him to find Chloe and her family while out picnicking, and they became fast friends at ages 9 and 10. They married at age 25, and have been married for 8 years now.

        He knows Avril is a changeling. As the eldest sibling and a father himself, Pops knew he had to warn Seb.

        Tool: Watering Tin

• Quiet, needs alone time
• Imaginative, a lover of stories

Chloe C. - (34) - Married Sebastian, and they dated for many years as childhood sweethearts. Very creative and intelligent, she loves to paint. The Cherise family loves her and is very glad that they have joined their family. She is ever so grateful to find their company and is glad that Sebastian likes to take things as slow as she does.

• Painter. Creative, an eye for design
• Curious about the inner workings of people's lives
• Soft-spoken and sweet

Leah C. - (1) - The baby of Chloe and Sebastian :) She’s very loud!!! Despite her quiet parents. Truly a joy. Itty bitty bundle.

        Tool: (?) shes baby!

Pops (Char)’s Side: (no last name they are weird!)

Grand Torrin - A retired adventurer known for his use of a giant battle ax! Quite witty and loves music. Everyone loves Grandpa Torrin, he’s fun to listen to. His favorite story to tell is about his trip to the fictional dancing city of Pirou.

He began adventuring after the end of the last Orzyn war, starting by helping people get back on their feet by doing tasks and being hired to move goods and people. Known for his goodwill, he was a big contributor to guilds all around.

Avril looks up to him, and his stories inspired her to leave home and explore the world for herself.

• Storyteller! And a liar!
• Will lie about something ridiculous then laugh when you believe him. All are in good spirits, he loves to joke!
• Good willed, and happy to help

Nana Gwendolyne - A retired field nurse! Met Torrin during the war, found each other again 5 years later, and married <3

        Doesn’t talk anymore, and loves to rock back and forth. Only says “no!” really meanly or laughs very loudly, no in-between. Currently in the care of the Cherise’s (Mama and Pops on the farm) with Torrin.

• Rocks on a rocking chair all day
• Can only cackle at jokes or say “NO.” with a scowl.

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The Traveling Family:

Out and about!

Avril C. - (19) - Trying out adventuring like her Grandpa Torrin, hoping to find an occupation, and find her tool’s true shape.

        Tool: Stick…

Morine T. - (DECEASED AT 25) - Haunting Avril, attempting to become real again.

        Tool: Scythe (?)

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        Tool: Handsaw

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The Talon Family:

Owns an animal farm North of Cherise Farms. About an hour and a half cart ride between. A miserable family, falling apart at every seam.

Uncle Jonas T. - Didn’t quite fit with the warm Cherise family, and was drawn to the stark and brutally honest Talons.

        Tool: Ax

Auntie Julia T. - A cold woman. Stays inside and handles finances of Cherise Farms. One of those moms that lick their thumb and scrub off the dirt from a kid’s face. Mori hates this.

Morine T. (DECEASED AT 25) -

Tool: Scythe (Missing)  

Quinn T. (DECEASED AT 22) - Married into the Talon Family. A carpenter by trade, they originally met because her family was contracted to make new barns for the farm. Married quite young to Mori a year later, with Aslana as the flower girl. Avril liked her, so she was probably funny and pretty.

Aslana T. - ( 21) - Quite a sad girl, for obvious reasons. Despite the Cherise family attempting to take her out for trips, her feelings don’t change. The Talon family is not one to deal with emotional problems. Her parents ignore her depression and almost ignore her entirely. Distracts herself with her work. The chickens are her favorite company.

Tool: Hay Fork

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Memory Magic Guide

People:

Listed are locations with events pertaining to the character

Avril - Foyer, Kitchen, Living Room, Nursery, Cassie’s Room, Twin Room, Porridge’s Room, Apple Orchard, Shed, Autumn Crop/East Woods

Pops - Porch, Kitchen, Living Room, Master Bedroom, Porridge’s Room, Treehouse, Autumn Crop/East Woods

Mama - Porch, Foyer, Kitchen, Living Room, Master Bedroom, Mudroom, Twin Room, Shed, Field

Cassie - Living Room, Double Bed, Cassie’s Room, Twin Room, Treehouse, Apple Orchard

Porridge - Porridge’s Room, Treehouse

Sebastian - Kitchen, Living Room, Double Bed, Storage Area, Shed

Chloe - Double Bed, Storage Area

Grand Torrin - Their past is up to you!

Nana Gwendolynn - Their past is up to you!

Mori - Kitchen, Living Room, Porridge’s Room, Apple Orchard, Shed

House: 

Downstairs

Porch 

• A character of your choice tripping on the wood boards and swearing quietly.

• Pops waiting late at night with an ax in hand. Mama can be seen in the living room through the window, waiting for him.

• The day the geese migrated and settled in their front yard. Pops sat with Avril for half a day while she counted. It was a warm summer day, so it wasn’t too bad.

Foyer

• Mama lacing up Avril’s (7) boots. They sing the “lace up shoes” song, which holds no real melody.

• Avril (15) is flirting with a girl visiting the farm on account of family business. The front door is open, and you can see the girl’s family loading up crates and bags of produce onto their cart. It seems like she and Avril are making plans to see each other again. (they never did).
  
• Learning that Aslana lost her original first name to the fae. Avril overhears Mama, Pops, Mr and Ms Talon talking about the incident from her hiding spot in the living room. Avril can't remember the original name of her cousin.

Kitchen

• Mama cooking… something? It’s burnt. She looks very young, as does Pops, who takes over and restarts making their dinner. The house is barely decorated. It is assumed that this was their first year living together at the farm.

• Sebastian (24) is restocking the kitchen with the help of Asher (16), Avril (10), and Mori (16). They are having a pleasant time, it's early in the afternoon.

Avril bumps the table and knocks over a jar of barley grains. The glass shatters on the floor, flinging barely all over the floor. A few seconds of silence, Avril froze in place. Asher and Mori look at each other, their jovial mood cut to a halt.
        “Avril-” Asher says, but she lunges to the ground, counting the grains one by one.
        Mori laughs and asks what the hell she’s doing, but Asher looks sadly at him and tells him to shut up. Mori does, as Asher never uses harsh words unless necessary.

        Avril screams a little as she loses count and restarts from 1. Mori stands at the counter as Asher kneels down to help. Though, as soon as he touches a grain, she shouts at him. It’s gibberish through her sobbing. He backs off and she starts right back at 1 again. Mori puffs and leaves the room, bored.

• Hours later, it's dark outside. Mama and Pops are sitting with her, looking insanely tired. It must be past midnight. Avril’s face is blotchy red with tears. She is currently in the 200’s.

• Avril making handmade ice cream with Cassie. Laughing and making a mess.

Living Room

• Avril (3), Cassie (11), and Asher (9) having a “concert” for the visiting Talon family! It sounds so bad. Mama doesn't hide how terrible she finds it but laughs openly. Mori and Auntie Julia are scowling. Uncle Jonas is clapping offbeat. Despite how terrible it is, they are all having loads of fun!

• Mama showing Avril (6) how to punch properly. They are using couch pillows. Mama holds one tight at Avril’s level and she punches weakly. Mama tries to bolster her confidence.

• Avril (5) ran into the room from outside with her mucky boots holding a light beam and squealing happily about summoning her tool for the first time! Mama swings her around as they celebrate, Pops smiles, very delighted that their youngest kid has caught up. Sebastian, Cassie, and Asher walk in to celebrate as well, though, looking at the tool, they can’t tell what it’s for. Cassie laughs, she thinks it’s useless. Mama scolds her and tells her every person and every tool has its use. Avril is far from useless. This doesn’t sting just yet, Avril believes her mother’s words.

• Avril meets her brother's little baby girl Leah! This happened 1 year ago.

Master Bedroom

• Pops crying on the bed. Mama hugs him. “I know you can’t tell me, but I wish you would. It’s terrible having you face whatever this is alone.”
  “No, no, Molly I can’t. I’m sorry.”
  She hugs him tighter.
  

Mudroom

• Mama cleaned off her boots and overalls. Very dirty, must have been doing work all day! Spring planting.

Stairwell

• Avril at age 3 falls down the stairs.
• Avril at age 9 falls down the stairs.
• Avril at age 12 falls down the stairs.
• Avril at age 18 falls down the stairs.
• Avril at age 19 falls down the stairs.

Upstairs

Nursery

• An open window with the cold wind whipping the curtains to and fro. Snow is blowing in. The cradle is empty.

• A 2-month-old baby girl in the cradle. So cute! She is sleeping
  
  (This is the first girl, NOT Avril)

• A 2-month-old baby girl in the cradle. So cute! She is sleeping
  

GM note: The room is unchanged. This is Avril, not the first girl. This happens the next night. If inspected by A.T, it is up to you if there are any differences.

Double Bed (Chloe and Seb’s old Room)

• Cassie and Sebastian read together on the bed. Their legs are looped together.

• Chloe comforts Cassie. It seems that she’s upset that she isn’t getting married like Chloe and Sebastian. Chloe is braiding her hair.
  

Cassie’s Room

• Cassie (23) is painting Avril’s (14) nails and gossiping. Avril cannot sit still and smudges her paint. It’s okay she’s having fun with her big sis :)

• Cassie (16) is screaming and stomping, thrashing her room, and throwing her books. It seems like she’s just moved into this room after Asher has moved out officially to become a scholar. Big teenage tantrum. She hates him for leaving her behind, misses him, and is wildly jealous.

Twin Room

• Pillow fights with Asher and Cassie! Cassie hits really hard and Asher mainly blocks, then she says something about him being a shit scholar. She is thoroughly defeated after his strong retaliation and they both end up on the floor laughing.

• Avril (5) is having a sleepover in the sibling's room. She is on the floor between the beds bundled up in blankets. All three of them can’t stop giggling. Mama comes up and knocks on the door, which they all scream at, then shush each other, hiding under the blankets. Mama smiles and tells them it’s getting way past Avril’s bedtime. Asher and Cassie complain that she is the one keeping them up!

Porridge/Avril’s old room

• Avril started a band with a bunch of chickens she had snuck into her room. Mama confiscated the musical instruments and the chickens too. It’s clear that this is not the first time Avril has done this.

• Mori (15) sitting on the floor playing with a wooden puzzle. He seemed to be tempted to snap off pieces. Avril (9) is sitting on her bed singing and playing with a doll, giving it lines and making her spin around and dance. Mori snaps off a piece of the puzzle and asks her if she knows that she isn’t really a part of the Cherise family. She pouts and asks how he knows that. He just lies until she cries. She believes him. Memory ends.

• Porridge (now Miso) plays with Pops. They are playing knights with Avril’s old dolls. Miso asks why there are no kids around for him to play with. Pops doesn’t know what to say.

Farm:

Treehouse

• Pops constructing the treehouse with Porridge. In the distance, Cassie is carrying planks of wood over for them to use. Pops is showing Porridge how to swing a hammer right, despite him being around 3 years old. (safe to say Pops did most of it himself.)

• Now built, Porridge is playing in the treehouse with his cousin Bee. It’s unclear what kind of game it is, but it looks like a weird version of Leapfrog with a point system of pebbles.
  The treehouse itself is not that high up, only 2 ladder steps up.
  

Apple Orchard

• Avril (7) and Mori (13) sword fight with very large branches. They run all over and pretend to be heroes saving a village. They can’t decide which one is the hero and which is the villain.

• Avril (4) swings on the low branches of a blossoming apple tree, shaking the blossoms off to make it look like “magic snow.” Cassie and Asher are trying to take her off of it because the trees won’t produce apples if the blooms are gone!

• Avril (9) With apple blooms in her hair. She is sitting in a tree with a sword-length branch. She is playing by herself and proudly exclaiming herself as Princess Applebloom, the hidden princess of Orzyn! She is addressing her court, pointing and ordering her subjects.

• Mama patching up Avril’s broken leg she got falling out of a tree
  

Storage Area (Middle of the farm)

• Sebastian is slacking off and chatting to his then-girlfriend Chloe. Mama passes them and shakes her head with a smile on her face.

Shed (Southeast past Summer crops) 

• Avril, about 6 years old, pretended to be attending a fancy party with imaginary friends. She has set sacks of grain arranged around in a circle as if they are sitting at a table.

Two of the grain bags are very close together, “dancing,” and Avril gossips about them to the other guests. She has a jar of apple juice she sips very fancily. Pinky out!

• Avril is about 8 years old, sobbing and pounding at the door. You can hear Mori (14) outside, laughing and telling her how far away she is from the house, how no one will hear her, and they won’t even notice she’s gone from supper because no one really cares about a forgettable girl like her.

With no windows, it's completely dark with the door shut. Avril tries to summon her tool because she knows it emits some sort of light, but is unable to because of how distressed she is.

• Mama and Sebastian (22) opened the door hours later, and Avril curled up under a shelf, still crying. They comfort her and Sebastian carries her back home.

Any field 

• Just the family working, not interesting. Can either be plowing land, planting seeds, weeding, fertilizing, watering, or harvesting.

Autumn Crop Field / Eastward Woods

• Mori knocks out Avril’s first tooth and throws it into the forest. It got thrown back.

• Pops teaches Avril to shoot a bow on a cold winter's morning. There is frost on the ground. Crunchy! She is not quite strong enough to pull it all the way back.

• Pops looking up to the woods, where foliage is moving. Pops says something to Avril and picks her up. He leaves the bow and target bag behind and runs as fast as he can back to the house.

• A group of people in the forest with faces covered by large brown cloaks. They are pointing and murmuring about a new fence that has been put up by the border of the farm. The fence has chicken wire along the bottom, which upon further inspection is not put on properly. It wouldn’t be able to keep any critters out.

The top of the fence, however, has long nails struck through and pointed straight up. No one would be able to hop on this fence without getting cut.

(GM Note: no other fences on the farm have this feature!)