Something I often put in games, and see in some others as well (Alice in the V5 streaming game Blood On The Thames, for example) - NPCs who can join in conversations at the PCs’ base of operations, and will listen to plans and provide feedback in-character. Even if there aren’t many support NPCs around, this one can be very useful. They usually support from the back, offering advice rather than direct help. It could be a friend, a mentor, a superior officer for a group of irregulars, or something like that. As played by me, they’ll often add to in-character chat and jokes as well.
In The Watch House, the student Watchers’ tutor Escher and the witch Emma played this role as well as other functions, and the demonic contact Sullivan and even the future Ethan Rayne to Milli’s Giles Marty sometimes would as well.
In From The Dust, Monique is Bonnie’s fellow night-shift waitress at the diner, a job Bonnie has kept up despite becoming a vampire, and her and the coterie’s check on how badly they’re maintaining the Masquerade around humans. Her main contribution is her doubtful expression.
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