Bestiary

The technology of the first moving pictures, and talkies fascinated people. Movies were an instant hit, drawing au­ diences and viewers of all ages across the world. The wild popularity caused Silver Screens to awaken in all major towns, and later in smaller towns.

Silver Screens started out as spirits invested in the hope and inspiration that film brought to audiences. The emotional high of watching a good film fed the spirits and they grew large from it. But, as some Weaver spirits tend to do, they were not content to simply grow fat on the random emotions of viewers. Instead, they became attuned to specific types of films — including comedies, action, adventure, drama, or romance. The spirits started competing with each other, attempting to gather audiences for a specific film type over others they found inferior.

Eventually, the spirits resorted to influencing audiences into enjoying a specific kind of film. At some point, the Silver Screens stopped caring about joy and overall audience satisfaction, so much as the type of film. Silver Screens now care only about immediate emotional reactions. They grow fat as the audience reacts to tear jerking scenes, big explosions, and slapstick comedy. They don’t care if the audience is satisfied with a film, as long as cinemagoers keep coming back to feed them later.

• Coercion: The spirit influences the target’s emotions, causing her to feel and react a certain way. The Storyteller rolls Gnosis (difficulty the target’s Willpower). This Charm can be used across the Gauntlet.

Silver Screens are not satisfied with natural audience reac­ tions to movies. If everyone in an audience is not laughing, acting scared, or impressed at appropriate times, the Silver Screens become angry. They feel that people must follow the order and pattern set forth by the film, and force people to act as ideal audience members. The idea of the perfect audience goes beyond the cin­ ema, and some Silver Screens have attached themselves to a person in an attempt to pattern his actions more like a film. The world around him becomes the audience for the movie that is his life.

Image: Silver Screens take on the form of movie characters when in the physical realm. While in the Umbra, they appear as a neat roll of film, communicating by revealing images to observers.