At the June 2008 meeting we played consequences (when the first person draws a head, then folds it over and passes it to the next who draws the body etc. till you get a rather random picture, we also added a naming category done without looking at the picture) afterwards everyone took a character home to create a backstory for them. Clare also redrew hers,to the left is her new creation based on the picture she received and here is the backstory:

Cecilia quelch:

she was born as a farm girl and soon after her seventh birthday, her parents died in a horse and cart 'accident'. she was sent to live with her grandmother, where she learnt witchcraft. by learning witchcraft though, cecilia became convinced that she could bring her parents back with her powers. so when she was old enough, she told her grandmother that she was going to travel in search of a way, but on hearing this, her grandmother became enraged, saying that there wasnt a way and that she was an evil child and a black witch. she also cursed cecilia, turning her upper body into a fish-like scaly body, with three spines on her right shoulder, and whenever she touched even a drop of water, her bottom half would change into a fish's tail.
but she was still convinced that she could find a way to bring her parents back, so she swore (doing the whole 'I swear in blood' thing - hence why she has a bandage on her arm - its a scar) that she would find a way. so off she toddled into the big, wide world, teaming up with a strange boy who turns out to be her brother and he was scaly from birth, and he is a 'puppetmaster'...cecilia has a sort of creature that she can summon created from smoke, and her specialist skill is shifting life force...