Well, Puck I'm kinda running as the few version of the Joker... Not really a combat guy.  More creepy, manipulative, and scary as f**k.  Hes also the one PC's dad.  The dragon, he's more a basic concept... He's already sponsored a bad guy or two behind the scenes, now I want to give him a face.  More combat themed, but not too ridiculous... The PCs are at the 2nd highest refresh level, can't remember the name right now.  The skill and refresh totals you listed sound good to me.  Basically, a few of our plotlines are coming to a head, a major milestone looms, and I need these guys to step out of the shadows and be seen.

Does that help?

So part of my current storyline calls for a Denarian... However, I'm a little fuzzy on actually building one. Anyone already done so?  How's it work?

So we started our game tonight... I kinda upped the seriousness of the "music comes true" thing on the fly, making it a nationwide/possibly global thing.  Of course, the group focused mainly on the local area, and their investigations are still pointing them towards the Raconteurs.  But now, since it's a widespread thing, stopping just this one band won't be enough.  Now they have to figure out how and why it's happening, and try to get the word out so that the other instances can be stopped as well...

I'm still toying with who's pulling the strings and what their end goal is... I have an idea, but I want to do some more reading before I "name" it here... maybe tomorrow...

I think the ideas are settling now... Since this is our first game, I want to leave things open for interpretation and adjustment on the fly.  I'm going to have the detective NPC (somewhat in the supernatural know, aspect of "Cop of tomorrow - today!") first bring a case (probably the mass suicides) to the groups attention, then we can go from there.
For the bands aspect, I'm thinking "third eye not-so blind"

Damn, I'm so pumped for this game.

I just came up with the band's name... The Raconteurs of Gibraltar.

Has a ring to it, dontcha think?

I think we're getting somewhere now... I think I'm going to make it a local band, as suggested.  This makes it mire plausible that they'd be doing multiple shows, so a pattern can more easily start to emerge.  I think I'm going to have the whole band have Cassandra's Tears, and they all trigger at random, which is why it's never the same song it works on twice.  I think they won't even know they have it, but all the effects they cause are amassing power for the big nasty of my campaign (whatever I decide that to be... It's early, I can be vague).  Their songs will be almost entirely covers, which also lends to the random effects.  As for the songs themselves and their effects, I'm working on a list.  So far I've got...

Filter- Hey Man Nice Shot - increased suicides, gun murders
Offspring - Come Out and Play - increased youth crime
Nickelback - Never Again - increased domestic violence
Green Day - Having a Blast - suicide bombers
Metallica - One - soldiers returning from Iraq have lost their arms, legs, sight, hearing... This one is REALLY dark...


I need some more.  Anyone got any for me?

Jonathon coulton is too much of a running gag amongst us, he'd completely take everyone out of the story.  Good out of the box thinking, though.  I'm trying to think of bands that are originally from the Cleveland area... So far I've come up with Nine inch Nails and Filter.

Hmm... One of those could work...