Now Casting - From the Beyond Casting Call

There is a thin veil between the world we know and reality. A veil which protects our fragile minds from unspeakable horror. As children we see through this veil to the truth, we see the monsters in our closets and under our beds, but we lose this ability as we grow up. As we are told over and over again our fears are nothing but imagination the part of our mind open to the truth closes, until not even a crack remains and we are no longer able to see through the veil.

But there are some, a small few, who have retained their ability to pierce the veil and see the world as it truly is. People who turn what they see into books, paintings, sculptures, and other works of art. These people, when asked where they get their ideas, will almost invariably say inspiration came from the world around them never knowing how close to the truth they are.

Then there are those ordinary people who go through life without once giving their childhood fears and fancies a second thought. Those who, when the monster does come for them in the dark, can't except what is happening and, if they survive the encounter, go mad and are never the same again.

And then there are those who are rarest of all. Those who have seen the truth as adults but haven't been driven mad. Those who have discovered imagination is the true reality and that the conspiracy nuts and those who claim vampires walk among us are right.

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From the Beyond is a modern day urban fantasy game where the players have discovered what they think is reality and what is true are not necessarily one and the same. In this world there is a good chance that anything that can be imagined does, in fact, exist. This does not mean everything will be as the players expect if they do encounter something or what works one time will work the next. An example would be vampires. In some stories garlic is useful in repelling them, in others it has no effect. This means if vampires are encountered garlic may work the first time but be entirely useless the next. Various conspiracy theories, even if they contradict one another, are in fact true.

The results of this is a world that is ruled by chaos and it is only our perception of reality that keeps things in check. For the players that perception has shifted and they can see the world for what it truly is, contradictions and all. How the players want to react to that knowledge will be up to them.