[Highschool Musical Jump]
v1.0
by LJG
December 31st, 2005. That's when our story starts, wildcat. You find yourself in a ski lodge, somewhere in the American southwest. You are minutes from going to a teen-party, possibly as a chaperone, and beginning a journey which will last an exceptionally short period of time, barring drawbacks, at only a few months from December until June. In the meantime you'll get to experience the wonders of musical theater, and surprisingly intricate sports choreography.
Take 1000 Wildcat Points to fund your adventures.
Starting Location:
This is a bit unusual, but there's actually only one starting location in this jump: the ski lodge where the movie's story starts off. Have fun! If you listen carefully you might hear two unusually talented singers discovering a burgeoning passion for music… And an even more pressing passion for each other . Or , you could BE one of the two aforementioned singers. Either way, know that the next few months will be quite busy.
Please note: If you are a wildcat or a freaky genius then you will be one of the two singers, unless you use perks to evade notice or prevent the singing from occurring.
Age and Gender: (Age - 16 Years, Gender - Male)
Your age is dependent on your origin. If you are a teacher you need to roll for your age, using 2d20s+18, and if you have any of the non-teacher origins you're 16. By default your gender is whatever you were previously. It is 50 WP each to freely choose your own age, if you are a teacher.
Origins: (Freaky Genius)
Freaky Genius
Oh hey, a new kid (probably). You're an academic whiz and talented at fields of study that require extensive amounts of rote memorization. You also have a lovely voice, though you have spent your life with a crippling stage fright that you only overcome when put on the spot and are entirely unprepared to sing or otherwise perform. If you wish, you could enter this setting with a fresh slate as a virtual unknown, or you could be an established part of the East High social ecosystem.
Perks:
Origins get their 100cp perks for free and the rest are discounted to 50%.
General (Undiscounted)
Continuity! - (Free)
This is a special perk. It is intended to be used in conjunction with jumps for High School Musical 2, High School Musical 3, and High School Musical: The Musical; The Series but it can be used in any setting you have visited more than once. This allows you to be remembered to the degree you would wish to be remembered by people who saw you in a past jump and are now seeing you in this one, so long as you are utilizing time-whiney shenanigans or alternative universes. In those cases once you meet people their other selves can have dreams and vague feelings about you, but the real power is if you go to jumps that sequentially, linearly follow each other and feature the same characters. Those people can remember you as clearly as you wish, allowing your friendships to persist across jumps evenwithout companion-ing people, in some slightly controlled scenarios.
A Star (Of the Disney Variety) - (Free)
You can carry a tune and do a little dance well enough to be at least a supporting character in a mid-2000s Disney movie or show. With just this you aren't going to take the musical world by storm, but you're good enough to be able to sing and dance at a professional level and could easily get a job as entertainment at a hotel, cruise, or entertainment venue as well as work as a backup singer for even world-class acts.
Musical Logic - (-400 WP) (This is a Capstone Booster)
This is a musical world. As such it's fitting that it, and now, as a jumper , you are affected by musical logic. With this, when you burst into song it has subtle but powerful effects on the world around you. There's little things, like your companions and those nearby responding in kind to your music (and knowing appropriate choreography to magnify the effects of your music), and not so little things such as your actions being amplified in ways related to the music you're singing. The amplification effects are minor on other people, but decidedly less so when focused inward and when used in conjunction withindividual actions. If this is used while training or while doing something directly it will significantly boost the results of your actions or involvement. You can use this to train more effectively, or to perform something better than you would otherwise, but if you try to use it to teach someone the effects won't be quite as strong, as an example. This is also an uncapper with regards to all facets of music.
Artsy Teacher
Teaching Is My Dayjob - (-100 WP)
And that's okay. You are still a more than adequate educator , and you have enough skills AND speed when it comes to doing the vital and normally unseen back-end work involved in teaching such as grading papers and preparing lesson plans to have a meaningful life outside of your job. You are skilled at every aspect of teaching, from the actual act of conveying knowledge to students to fairly grading their work and administering effective discipline for their sometimes rowdy actions.
Understanding - (-600 WP)
Teachers are humans. This realization is one that not many people, other than teachers themselves, have. You are just as capable of having negative relationships with coworkers and even with students, but this perk can help with that. You have curious luck when it comes to overcoming hangups with other people. For some reason you can expect to eventually come across even people you strongly dislike having moments of vulnerability or need where a kind hand or a gentle presence can help them in ways big and small and they will fondly remember your presence in their moment of need. This can help you forge strong, persistent bonds of respect, friendship, and trust even with people you once detested.
A Kind Song (Capstone-Boosted)
Your songs are songs of healing, reconciliation, and self-discovery. You can use your voice to help people feel vulnerable and then to subsequently overcome said vulnerability with powerful moments of emotive introspection, and you are particularly good at using songs to help bitter rivers, and even enemies, or heartbroken figures figure out how to address their feelings
Wildcat
The Power Of Legacy - (-100 WP)
Everyone feels the subtle weight of legacy in their lives, be it from being forced to contend with the legacies they inherit or the ones they see being forced onto others. With this you draw a special kind of power from the actions of your family, particularly your parents and their parents. You can reliably expect to draw some minor benefit from the actions and lives of your parents, in ways both big and small. If your father is a coach and a former student athlete, your own athleticism and leadership skills will be boosted, and the closer you are to living up to this legacy the greater this power becomes. So the more you act in line with how someone with your parents would be expected to act, the greater the boost to your inherited skills will be.
Universal Appeal - (-200 WP)
There's something about you that appeals to any and everyone. Somehow, even in the most insular spaces, your popularity is universally accepted and people will, at worst, tolerate you until you give them a reason not to.
Freaky Genius
New Kid on the Block - (-100 WP/Free for Freaky Genius)
You perpetually benefit from the boons of being a new kid. During your early life you spent a lot of time on the road, and because of this you got used to being the new kid. People are constantly excited to meet you and talk about you, and your presence energizes people, encouraging them to be their truest selves because they don't feel the subtle social inertia that keeps people trapped in their ways when they are around you. You bring out the best in people, in ways that are curious but allow you to see new depths to people regularly.
„Genius" in „Freaky Genius" - (-200 WP/-100 WP for Freaky Genius)
You are smart. Like, you could effortlessly get full ride scholarships to prodigious universities, smart. Academic matters come easily to you, and you have a potent, passive boost to studying and on-the-job-training that significantly amplifies how easily you can recall things you learned. You have a perfect memory, muscle and otherwise, that allows you to easily learn even how to do artistic things.
The Heart - (-600 WP/-300 WP for Freaky Genius)
You have incredible self-awareness as far as your feelings go. Your nature as a genius isn't just directed outward, it's an inward thing that allows you to know how you're feeling. You can communicate this, expertly, to other people. You will not suffer from confusion as far as who you are and what you feel goes.
Emotive Singing (Capstone-Boosted)
You have a moving voice that stirs something inside of those who listen to it. When people hear your singing they gain an iota of the awareness you constantly have and can discover things about themselves even if you don't know they are listening. This can help people shed hesitation and overcome self-doubt. Your voice can also help people recover from moments when they are in an altered-state by appealing to who they truly are, to their idealized images of themselves
Items:
Items may be imported into similar - items, weapons to weapons, clothes to clothes, etc. Any item alterations and upgrades made will be maintained between jumps and are fiat-backed. All origins get their 100cp perks for free with subsequent purchases being 50% off, and all other purchases for that origin discounted by 50%. Building complexes, unless stated to have an in-world location, will be placed near your starting location in-jump for your stay and will be attached to your warehouse after the jump is complete, they can then be imported into future jumps as desired.
General (Undiscounted)
Clique Fashion - (Free)
You receive a wardrobe of clothes appropriate to the general tendencies and interests of your friends groups once you've been with them for a few weeks. These clothes will always be seen favorably by anyone who likes you and especially by your friend group, so long as they are venue appropriate. And you do get clothes fit for a range of venues from this.
Ski Lodge - (-400 WP)
Ah, so THAT'S why you were there at the start of the jump. It turns out that you own the ski lodge! No one will question this, given your very probable in-jump age being that of a teenager, and this property will extend to your ownership of other properties as an extra boon afforded to those who invest their points into this property. This is a solidly profitable business, and it will follow you along your chain, importing into appropriate locations in future jumps and, even if not touched by you from a managerial standpoint, will continue to generate a decent, steady income year round. There IS a curious gimmick to this lodge, which is that people who visit it are remarkably likely to meet potential love interests (or renew and deepen their existing romantic relationships) and a series of fortuitous coincidences will ensure they discover new facets to themselves while here if encouraged to go and mingle with other guests.
Artsy Teacher
Artistic License - (-100 WP)
You are a qualified teacher of some subject related to the arts, such as English, theater, chorus, or drama. This qualification, which you can spawn physical copies of with a moment's concentration, is rigorous enough that you can teach at the college level with it, and no one will question you, at least not from a credentialed point of view. You can also use this to demonstrate your qualification for more unorthodox teaching roles such as teaching a class at the Yor being an educator for adults attempting to get their G.E.Ds.
Wildcat
Self-Awarenesss & Familil Ties - (-100 WP)
You will always have an accurate family tree available to you in your mind's eye, accessible at any time. With this you know precisely who you're related to. You can also prove it to them by simply willing them to know and they'll believe the family tree, though how they react to this news is on them.
Freaky Genius
Cellphone - (-100 WP/Free for Freaky Genius)
This is a mid 2000s cellphone, but it is indestructible, waterproof, and has infinite battery. It also has an impressive camera that can capture perfect pictures of people. If you get a photograph of someone with it and they consented to the photo you are guaranteed to run into them again in favorable circumstances sometime in the next two and a half weeks.
Talented Twin
Search The Internet Dot Com - (-100 WP)
You know of a search engine that is always accessible to you so long as you have a device capable of connecting to the internet that will always produce immediately relevant information when used. If you were thinking of a specific person when you used this search engine to look up information on them you'll find a brief blurb that is directly useful to you every time, so long as you know their actual name. Same for a bit of trivia you're searching for.
Scenarios:
The Start of Something New
To complete this scenario you must ensure that the canon is adhered to as closely as possible, with the minimum conditions being that Troy and Gabriella stay together through the callbacks (barring their minimum, semi-breakup in the wake of the Wildcat's evil plot), the Wildcats win against East High, the Academic Decathlon team wins, and that Troy and Gabriella are given the leading role in Twinkle Towne.
Reward - By completing this scenario you earn a perk named "The Show Must Go On", which is an anti butterfly effect perk. This perk shields the mainline plot of a jump from unexpected shifts, while allowing you to enact both subtle and unsubtle changes yourself.
Drawbacks:
Plot is King - (+0 WP)
You may leave any time after the main plot is complete, unless any drawback or scenarios are still in effect and incomplete.
Voiced Over - (+100 WP)
For some reason when you sing it is not your voice that comes out of your mouth. Your talking voice is unaffected, but when you sing you hear someone else's singing coming out. This greatly weakens the effects of your songs when you sing, but does not weaken them if they are performed instrumentally.
Commentary Bait - (+200 WP)
Oh no, this movie has attracted the YouTube commentary channels! For some reasonnyou can hear a thousand voices subtly whispering commentary as you go about your day. This can be distracting and unnerving, especially since these figures are not awarenof your plot-breaking nature and are affected by your perks in much the same way as other people are, but they cannot affect you directly. Nothing you do will stop them from commenting on the scenes playing out in front of you, and your own actions, as though you were the protagonist here.
A Disney Voice - (+200 WP)
You only have access to music perks from this jump for the duration of this jump. Even if you were a divinity of music, this would reduce you to your body mod and this jump's perks as far as music goes.
Can't Sing - (+400 WP)
Ooof. This drawback stings and it supercedes all other perks. For the duration of this, thankfully short, jump you cannot sing or perform in a musical context at all. Even if other figures are utilizing their own versions of Musical Logic you would not be able to skillfully join along. In future jumps all of your musical things work as intended, but for the few months you're stuck in high school you won't be in the theater.
Lockdown - (+600 WP)
You have no Out Of Context items, powers, or warehouse.