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Adelicia is probably the antithesis of what you expected people to create in terms of characters, I imagine; weak, vulnerable, afraid of everything. Does it make me a masochist or a sadist, I wonder? I'm already thinking about what awful trials she'll be put through. And I have some thoughts as to what might occur if beasthood should swallow her after all. I want to say everything will work out just fine for her but... well, I just don't know about that. Got this feeling. :P
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Working on my post. I wonder what weapon(s) Raine should wield..
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Hmm... My first thought when I looked at him was actually the beast claw, but thinking about it logically I figure that it - looking at its description - is probably a unique weapon rather than a mass-produced one. It also probably wouldn't exactly help his image as a man trying to come back to civilization after spending time with the Harrow. Maybe something like the saw cleaver/spear, or the Hunter's axe? Or the beasthunter saif or beast cutter?
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I'll make an IC post either this night (my aim) or on Sunday.
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Should we be moving our character sheets over to the other tab? Just to they're easier to find.
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I'd prefer to keep them in the OOC tab and just link to them in the OP for management reasons, but if you want to keep them in the actual Characters-tab, I suppose there's no harm.
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@Dark Jack Does the church servant’s body appear to be...intact?
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I pondered whether to specify the condition of the church servant in the IC post, but figured that at the time I left off Victor or the others would probably not be able to tell the details. If Raine intends to run over and check it, however, he will find that the servant has been slashed, stabbed and bludgeoned numerous times.
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About to put my post up and wake Marcus up from the clinic, but before I do that couple of questions: do all these Palebloods wake up at the same time or is Marcus able to sink in that he's only one awake in the room? Is Marcus feeling in pain or something (I plan to have some disarray in his memories)? And is Marcus waking from underneath a pile of messengers like the dead ones (or... Are they really dead?) or just with just a few over him?
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The (false) Paleblood Hunters won't wake up simultaneously, no, though given that most of them probably received the treatment to become Hunters at about the same time, their time of awakening will probably be reasonably close to one another. Since you're the first one with a character in that scene to post, you kind of have control of how much time your character has before the next one wakes up (within reason... think minutes, not hours).
I don't think a Hunter waking from metamorphosis would be in pain, no. By the time he was ready to wake up the transformation would be complete, and there shouldn't be any reason for it.
And no, the (false) Paleblood Hunters waking up won't be buried in Messengers; the Messengers only do that to the dead. They don't even crawl on them at all. Rather, he will just wake up to being surrounded by them, with them sitting at the edge of his cot and on the floor, staring at him.
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Had a bit of a "duh"-moment and realized that characters might also know a thing or two about these guys:





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So... how is things? Who is working on posts right now, and how are they coming along?

I've also been wondering about Adelicia's censer, Ashgan: is it supposed to just contain some mundane incense that literally has no purpose but to mask her scent, or is it supposed to be the actual anti-beast incense used specifically to ward off beasts?
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I figured it's the warding incense that they use around buildings, yes. Unless you see some kind of issue with that. Incense is relatively easy to carry and spread, after all, so I figured it would be a prudent thing to equip her with.
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No, it's fine, I just wanted to be sure because it's only ever been described as hiding her scent rather than actually repelling beasts. It was mostly to portray how beasts reacted to her better.

Unrelatedly I've been browsing the cut content from Bloodborne for ideas, and figure I might end up using some of it in the RP. Also been reading up on Lovecraft mythos for inspiration. Good stuff.
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All right. By the way, do you have any speculation on what the incense is made from, or its origins? It occurred to me to ask the question and I don't believe I've heard anything about it. Maybe Redgrave has something in his Bloodborne manifesto, I forget.

I'm not too familiar with the game's cut content, though I remember one cut boss which looked a bit like the popular portrayal of Shub-Nigurath's dark young, as seen here. As for Lovecraft, it's never a bad time to read more of his stuff, or the authors he's inspired. Even some works that you may not immediately associate, like Conan the Barbarian, have some stories that lean quite heavily on grandfather HPL's ideas and are all the better for it. I really liked The Slithering Shadow, for instance.
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Yes I am working on my post ^^ a bit busy today, but will get it up soon.
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Thank you, Bartimaeus, though I admit I was more interested in news from the ones playing (false) Paleblood Hunters with Habibi, namely @Th3King0fChaos and @King Cosmos, if nothing else then just to make sure that they aren't waiting for me or each other to post in that scene.

EDIT: As for cut content, I was interested in the one you found there, Ashgan, which is theorized to have been an early or alternate version of the Moon Presence. I'm also somewhat intrigued by creatures with such uninspired, clearly temporary names such as the snake ball, the Great One Beast and the beast horse.
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I'm still here, just haven't had much time to post recently. Slowly working my way through the RPs I'm in; I'll get a post up for this either tomorrow or Saturday.
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Waiting for the kings of Chaos and Cosmos to make their posts, but I have an outline for Marcus's next actions planned unless something else is happening.
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Been thinking a lot about what the beast-repellent incense is supposed to be, and trying to find others theorizing on it, but it seems that it's a mostly unanswered question, the explanations for which I've found being only very loosely justified.

Here is what we know about the incense: it masks the scent of Hunters, and given that Hunters are known to smell very strongly, probably also masks the smell of Yharnamites and humans.
Ahh, a hunter are ya? Very sorry, the incense must've masked your scent.(...)
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We also know from how beasts interact with the heavily incense-filled Oedon Chapel that beasts are repelled by it, and that thick enough incense can literally act as a barrier keeping beasts out, making them stay back even in the face of someone attacking them from within the incense.
And finally, we know that incense is hard to come by. Citizens have a very finite supply, if they have any at all, some not even enough to get through a single night. All the larger stores of incense belong to the Healing Church and are used to block possible venues of access for beasts to the Cathedral Ward, suggesting that the church is likely also the producer and supplier of incense to the rest of Yharnam.

So it has a really intense smell, and it repels beasts; two traits that are not necessarily related. And the Healing Church has a bunch of it. We also know that if you break the containers supposedly filled with incense in Oedon Chapel, there's human remains inside.
In conjunction with a few scattered theories I found, but mostly from logic, I will then say that in the RP, incense is beasts. The Healing Church collects the corpses of beasts and somehow uses them, or part of them (bones, fur, eyes, blood or some other organ; could even be some kind of scent glands naturally developed by those afflicted with the scourge of beasts) to produce incense. I'd be tempted to think that the corpses of Hunters could be used as well, but the game seems to suggest that the smell of a Hunter is clearly distinctive from that of a beast, so I don't think that would be the case.
I also can't imagine that the incense has a very pleasant smell... but that's just me. Everyone has different preferences, I guess.
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