[OOC] Betwixt the Eternal Light

[NewSun]

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PMing NewSun about this cause I had an idea- but either way, Prince will be introducing himself after the newest time jump.

@OneEyedChurro

Indeed. Churro has already explained to me how he wishes to introduce his character so we have something to work with from here. I'll keep the time skip, I figure we can post retrospective dialogue and actions if anything was dying to be said.

[Laue]

Meh, couldn't stretch out my post as much as I wanted to.

[NewSun]

@goodmorrowtou Hey, I almost missed the sheet you posted. It looks good, but could I make a small request that you do a small edit of Dempsey's 'Memories' section to be a little less... colloquial dialogue. I enjoy characterisation through unique speech just as much as the next guy, but I had a little trouble figuring out just what was going on. Also, i'd recommend a few more memories; they tend to not stick around for too long. Other than that though, your character is pretty much ready.

@Laue Still good though ;)

[Komamisa]

Apologies again for my late-ness. It's been a busy Easter weekend.

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B e a s t i a r y

THE SILENCER

S t a t u s
ALIVE

L o c a t i o n
The Blind Forest

Woe and dread betide those whose only comfort and company may be the sound of their own voice. Those that enter The Blind Forest would be best advised to stay their tongues and tread softly, for the forest is known to have ears. Rumour has it that a creature lurks within, lured by the voices of careless Wanderers and the crazed Empty. It has no eyes—not anymore—and only listens, waits, and stalks upon its prey, seeking to destroy those who would break its sacred silence.

To those that bear witness to The Silencer, it is a tall being of uncertain shape, bathed in literal shadow until the moment it strikes. It is capable of changing its shape, and lurks behind or beyond vision, obscured by the darkness of the Land Betwixt and the ever-present fog of the Blind Forest. Always, it wears a bone white mask where its head should be, on it drilled a visage vaguely resembling a cynical smile. Its strike is swift and its patience is eternal, and it will always come from behind the unwary traveller to lift from the legs with spindly yet powerful arms and a painful grip. A powerful blow to the back of the head follows, incapacitating the prey before a scythe-like incision is made upon the throat, beginning the slow process of bleeding one dry.

At the verge of death, when the voice is stifled and the traveler with no hope of survival, it turns them around, lifting to look them in the eyes before it lifts its shadows to reveal a gaping maw.

[SirBeowulf]

You should use the smiling face as your avatar.

:)

I even made it easy for yah.

[Shienvien]

@NewSun:
There's this bit to my last post that you probably missed:

On another note, would it have been possible for a person to die at older age, but appear younger in this world? I might put together a small summary of her actual life as I imagined it, as well as order the real waking memories from her life chronologically - for mostly GM purposes (so that there'd be no trudging through several iterations of real and fake memories).
- Just to note, I am also keeping running track of things in her possession (including rations and water), so if I have edited the CS, this is probably why.

On another note, will probably post later today.

[NewSun]

@ShienvienAh, sorry.

So age disparity is not something I had originally considered, but in case of your character I feel it would be somewhat appropriate if you required such a device. Feel free to implement something like this if it helps you.
The real waking memories would be a good thing to have as a reference, I read through your memory sequence like four times when you first posed the sheet, it melted my eyes. :)

@Dark JackOh, how I enjoy perfect. You don't see many well-played psychopath characters nowadays.

[NewSun]

B e a s t i a r y

LAMENTOR

S t a t u s
ALIVE

L o c a t i o n
The Broken Crypt

Certain legends from the Mortal World speak of such a creature that supposedly guarded the gateway to Purgatory; originating as two, separate elite guards of some unknown God who was charged with the absolute defence of the underworld, his two protectors - after centuries of restless onlooking - are said to have fallen in love and in turn conspired to kill their creator so they could be free together. This malcious, ancient, unnamed God uncovered their conspiracy to be together and promptly put a terrible end to their dreams and their heresy.
The two were supposedly fused together in some abhorrent ritual, their eyes ripped from their heads and encased within great cages of stone, their tongues mutilated and burned so they could not share a word for the rest of eternity. As the final punishment, they were finally cast into some dark, hellish land to suffer for forever. It is said that they have since been driven mad by the lashes of time.
This is how they have gained the name that is feared so widely. They are said to lament every moment they rebelled against their God.

[goodmorrowtou]

Fixed

[NewSun]

@goodmorrowtouAlright, looks good. Thanks for the edit. Feel free to jump into the IC when you are ready.

[SirBeowulf]

Good post, Morrow. We got off to a bad start, but you're not a bad rper. Where do you hail from? Any specific site?

[goodmorrowtou]

Thanks, and it's all pretty new to me. This is really the first site I've come too...I guess for "official" RPing anyway. I used to mess around other places, but nothing serious or involved.

[Ashgan]

Took me almost two weeks but I made my first post. Yay. Not sure I went over the top or not, but I kind of liked it as it is. I'd also like to point anyone who is interested in checking out the update to the memories in my character sheet; I gave all of them individual titles now, and added the memory of the Misshapen. Have fun y'all.

[NewSun]

@AshganLooks good, I like the idea of obtaining memories from certain monster kills. Will have to implement that!

[Shienvien]

Hmm... I think monster kills potentially giving memories is certainly supportive of where I might be going.

(Ey, I have half a post, but I literally fell asleep midway through it yesterday. Will finish it a bit later.)

[NewSun]

@ShienvienBut hehehehehe.

Monster kills.

More like Monster's Kills.

[Shienvien]

@Laue: Hrn... I realized I don't know how tall Maldron is?

[Laue]

Hmm never given his height much thought. Let's make him average, about 1.6 metres.

[Shienvien]

1.6 meters and average? I am 1.77 myself and I don't really find many men I can look down at over here - quite the opposite; I am typically out-towered. My personal "average height for a man" is 1.86 or thereabouts.

[Dark Jack]

To be fair, average height depends a lot on the time-period one is from and where one comes from, mostly due to genetic tendencies from various areas but also due to native environmental factors. In modern Earth an average height of around 1.6 meters is indeed very rare to find in any area (though there exists countries where the average height is even shorter than that; Estonia, according to the statistics I can find, actually has a rather high average height), but no further back in time than the early eighteenth century the average height in large parts of Europe was actually not that far from 1.6 meters.
I'm sure you knew most of this, if not all of it, but considering that Maldron seems like he's probably from medieval times, it's feasible that he could be average height where and when he came from. It would make an interesting contrast, though, to view Maldron next to the 1.87 m Perfect; as if Perfect needed even more confidence.