[OOC] Umbra Rose Condos

[Lemons]

It might be uncomfortable to be around her, but it's not uncomfortable to speak with her as long as they're not in physical proximity. Velvet works and she doesn't ever have to eat; so she's 10,000% going to buy Yumeiko a laptop and/or phone so they can talk remotely over Discord and the phone and whatnot.

[CitrusArms]

Oh, damn, page transition. I wasn't being sarcastic, my discord is in my bio. >>; you meant- aah, haha. Hmm, that's got me thinking..

What a good friend! Yumeiko will totally get acquainted with electronics for someone so kind and generous. 8D

[Lemons]

Velvet will happily teach her.

Well, "happily" only goes so far when being around someone gives you the flu, but she's willing to, and isn't that a marker of liking someone in itself?

[CitrusArms]

Legally distinct discord app name... Japanese developed app called ChaosChatroom, know as ChiChiRo. It's not-discord. And it's world-building, if the GM likes it.

How to repay such kindness, hmm.. anything she makes herself would probably be considered sacred, huh?

[Lemons]

Not necessarily, in the same way that, say, someone giving her a candlestick from a church wouldn't get to her. It needs to be a proper symbol meant to signify or invoke the divine. Things that are just loosely associated are 100% fine.

[CitrusArms]

But what to make for a centuries-old vampire that likes to stay in and play games...

Hmm~, find out if there's anything she's missing from her available accessories, perhaps. But that's not making something, that's ordering... Sounds expensive..

[LupusIntus]

And I keep making extra toons as well. So far I've made a scylla CS and a )heavyweight) centaur, but I've got so many ideas for others too. Like a genie/djinn, banshee, leanan sidhe(Sp?), yeti, arachne, jaguarman, cait sith and a few additional ones...

@Xaltwind

I have a centuries old, eternally youthful alchemist who accidentally drank the philosopher’s stone and now has a ‘Midas Touch’ thing going on (but only for metal). He has 3 sentient homunculi that look like derpy pugs.

[Carlyle]

so i bought a suzy the other day



she's a lil spooky ghost wax warmer :)

[CitrusArms]

Eee, cute little Suzy :D

Ooh, idea.

[Lugubrious]

So far, my other idea for a character is a skeleton.

Say hi, Trip

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Lugubrious
Ever the one lingering just on the outlines of interactions! I like the hints of the possible identity reveal for later on!

[Xaltwind]

Does Khalid wear any enchanted items or carry any mystical trinkets/baubles with him?? Or is it just the special case with the shoggoth inside?

[Lugubrious]

Does Khalid wear any enchanted items or carry any mystical trinkets/baubles with him?? Or is it just the special case with the shoggoth inside?

@Xaltwind

He has six talismans that open their eyes and look at sources of magical/extradimensional energy and also vibrate in its proximity, which he keeps on his belt. He has a number of red wax seals across his equipment and outfit, some of them with eldritch symbols, including his belt buckle and badge, and there are special silks with woven inscriptions as well (his tie actually is one). You can see all this stuff in his image. His umbrella sort of counts, but he doesn't carry it with him unless it's a rainy day or he's going somewhere particularly dangerous.

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Dragonydas
Are all the courtyards connected at some point? Or are they all separate from each other?

[Massasauga]

I’m still working on the sheet but I hope no one minds if I use Delta Green stats for the shoggoth racial traits. Shoggoths are notoriously hardy and difficult to destroy.

[Lugubrious]

I’m still working on the sheet but I hope no one minds if I use Delta Green stats for the shoggoth racial traits. Shoggoths are notoriously hardy and difficult to destroy.

@Massasauga

That tracks with what I wrote so far, which is that it's 'basically invincible', so you're probably good.

[Massasauga]

Here we go

Shoggoth #2

Name: Rebecca "Rose" Holloway

Image/Appearance:


Race: Eldritch Abomination

Racial Traits:

Endurance: A shoggoth can survive comfortably in vacuum, in any depth of water, in freezing temperatures, and in catastrophic heat. Radiation which would cause cell-death in mammals is quite harmless to a shoggoth. A shoggoth suffers no ill effects from aging. Presumably a shoggoth must feed, but they have been known to sit in torpor for years—or centuries, or millennia, or eons; who can say?—with no apparent harm. The limits of a shoggoth’s endurance are unknown. With this in mind, the human body it is attached to requires a transfer of shoggoth matter to it in order to stay alive in such conditions with can rapidly drain energy from both.

All-Seeing: Shoggoths are encased in a thousand shifting eyes that can see in every portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. While the shoggoth is present in its Eldritch form, it is impossible to sneak up on its host.

Tekeli-Li: Shoggoths were bred to communicate, and to imitate the sounds of their former masters. They are incredible mimics. Few know how long it would take a shoggoth to use this facility for actual communication, but they certainly can imitate any sound they hear.

Intellect: A shoggoth has intelligence on the same scale as a human, but its modes of thought are utterly, incomprehensibly alien. In most encounters, a shoggoth acts with seemingly mindless, destructive wrath. But it may have inscrutable goals, newly conceived or developed over billions of years, which are served by the destruction it causes. In this case, the shoggoth is bound to the host with the "binding sigil" that is the Elder Sign. Through the years, the host and the entity have developed a crude method of communication while the shoggoth continues to be bound by the Elder Sign.

Reshape: Shoggoths can ooze, grow, shift or change their plastic form to fit through almost any gap. If air can pass through an opening, a shoggoth can as well.

Regeneration: A shoggoth can rebuild itself from a minuscule amount with only the most basic elements. If left in this state in an environment with access to oxygen and water, even trace water in the air, it reconstitutes to half strength in a matter of days. The shoggoth also regenerates tissue that belongs to its host.

Requirements: No outstanding requirements

Personality: Stoic, guarded, troubled. Rebecca has been through quite a lot and knows that sharing her past wouldn't earn her any sympathy about her situation because not all of it stems from her current relationship with her body's tenant. She hides a lot of her true self behind a wall of reservation, but she is far from inconsiderate.

Background: Little is known about Rebecca in the public light, and for good reason. Utilized as a new venture against combating Eldritch horrors during the Cold War, Rebecca was subjecting ti government trials involving induced shoggoth symbiosis. There was no thought given to the her expense. Part of the trail included combat testing for long-term exposure as well as performance. From 1967 to 1972, Rebecca was deployed with the 5th Special Forces Group as a part of MACV-SOG. Her top secret nature made her perfect for the top secret missions into Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War.

After the conflict wound down and Nixon enacted Vietnamization, the powers that be grew restless in dealing with Rebecca. Though they had reservations of placing her in other units on other missions, she was eventually allowed to participate in the newly minted 1st SFOD-D. But Rebecca’s past followed her, and she was swiftly becoming unpopular with Big Army as they found it harder to keep her identity a secret. Name changes, moves, redeployments, all were just stopgap measures. Eventually, Rebecca saw the writing on the wall. Even with pushback from her units she served with, Big Army was looking to quietly get rid of her.

With help from people she had met along the way, Rebecca was able to live a life AWOL from her unit and kept herself mobile to avoid prying eyes and suspicions. Her goal was to make it appear as if she had fallen off the face of the Earth. Her old life was gone and her new life had only just begun when she was met in a bar and handed an envelope from someone who had “done a lot of work to find her”.

Building, Floor, and room: Building 1 - Floor 3, Room #1-303
Room description: Sparse and spartan decoration. Full of old military lockers with a few pieces of furniture, several bookcases, a large walk-in closet for storage, a kitchen and dining room, and a small bedroom.

[Lemons]

Oh god
Can't wait to see the reaction of our resident shoggoth scholar to her existence.

[Carlyle]

another vietnam vet

when are we getting the monster vietnam flashbacks

[Lugubrious]

Oh god
Can't wait to see the reaction of our resident shoggoth scholar to her existence.

@Lemons

It sounds like this shoggoth is more like an internal parasite in Rebecca's body, so given her reserved nature I don't think it would be obvious to Khalid. Though maybe a shell-shocked veteran would be more inclined to try out Shoggoth Therapy. If he did find out, though, it would definitely be a surprise that the human hasn't been completely assimilated.