I am WAY too out of shape for Boffer fighting...I get tired watching other people exercise...8P
Sadly, and for good reasons, I do not own a gun otherwise I'd be down for some target shooting.
I understand. No worries.
Bear, you DO know that Hawaii is on the opposite side of the country form Florida right?
Indeed! My (perhaps somewhat sketchy) rationale is that Pele is one of the most powerful goddesses/demons/fae still walking the earth. People still actually worship her, fear her, and even avoid construction to avoid angering her. She has a lot of mojo....
And she is also a goddess of destruction - a jealous one at that.
I will be posting my character for peer review on this forum in another day or two, but the idea is that my character wants to help people, but he feels lost and while just a lowly evocator he was feeling vastly underpowered. This was why he accepted power from such a questionable source. The item of power he has will not only be a way to help mitigate his refresh (it contains all of his sponsored magice - /all/ of it.) but also provides a way for Pele to feed on the violence around him.
Pele is stuck on a little group of islands where not a lot happens anymore violence-wise, so she invests power in special individuals to experience it vicariously. As a representative progresses, she invests more power into them. This is my justification in-game for a character taking on more powers if/when he gets more refresh.
As such, he will be subtly compelled to seek out violence. He does not know that the artifact does this... so it's a pretty insidious compel. I was thinking that if the campaign lasts long enough, this could even become a plot point for something.
Anyway, the point is that heading to a hotspot while he is wandering to unknowingly jump into a fray created by other gods sounds like exactly the sort of thing he would be lead to do right now since he doesn't have much of a purpose or direction.
You might want to look into more of a Caribbean influence (Voudoun etc) or possibly Hispanic/old European (to Represent Cuban/Puerto Rican influences in the area). Part of the campaign will revolve around ancient Greek Mythology. The newest club in town is Called "Club Siren" and is run by a woman named "Kalliope Athenopolus"; There'll be more info on her come Sunday.
Cool!
As a note you said your GG was thinking about a were-tiger, may want to make it a were-cougar as they are native to Florida and won't stick out quite so much, unless sticking out is her intention! I'm not going to say she can't do the tiger, but it's something to consider as police will be more likely to chase down a tiger on the loose than a cougar. But it could also make a fun catch as well...
I will bring it up with her, but I think she wants to be a white tiger. Being so out of place would be a great compel, though. Her character concept is that she was a lonely girl who dabbled in magic but never actually did anything all that fantastic before... until she was almost raped and killed in an alley. In the clarity before she was actually hurt, after her clothes were torn off, she transformed into a white tiger and killed the rapist.
Since then she has been compelled to patrol her campus and try to watch over other girls, but she is not very good at it because she is rubbish at violence. She's also painfully shy and she knows next to nothing about the supernatural.
I really like the concept - that of a relatively powerful power in someone who knows so little about what is going on. Not only that, she is new to roleplaying so keeping her role closer to her real personality may be easier for her to roleplay.
We shall see.