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British & Gay. First played video games on an Atari ST.

Would be willing to retry 1x1s if you're interested in old school sci-fi. Even sci-fi video games.

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@Caits I found some spare time to finish up a third character.

I'm in, boys. =]
@Juno & @Lockhart


(Biff Constantine & Ricky Allen)



Biff took a long, slow drag from her cigarette, exhaling at a similar snail's pace. Tobacco, even the cheap stuff, was relaxing in only the direst of circumstances. The only buzz she received from it now – as had been the case for six years – was the dull satisfaction of an itch being scratched; however, in chaotic circumstances, like when a collection of children is left to wait without supervision like a ticking time bomb with no defusal squad, it gave her something to focus on.

Like answering the question of the man who appeared out of thin air while she was zoned out, like an apparition, or a spectre.

"You're too late to duck out the back door, if that's what you mean, but classes haven't started. Fighting has, though," she said. Her expression was a pained amalgamation of a smile crossed with a grimace. It would be hard to explain what she had just witnessed to someone who clearly wasn't present, or (if she couldn't trust her powers of observation) simply not paying attention. "I've got no clue why my dad wanted me to come here, 'cos from what I've been seeing, it's an absolute shit-show."

She tilted her head in the direction of a group gathering not far away from where she was standing, still in hearing range, but only if she strained. After having watched an Asian girl attack a guy after something he said (and really, she hoped she had misheard him because of distance), and then a edged weapon being drawn on her (because that was a proportional response), Biff wanted nothing more than to head inside and start painting her dorm room all sorts of pretty colours with bloody wards. "Sorry, I just needed to bitch a bit. Not the best start." She crushed the remains of her cigarette underfoot and held out her hand. "Biff Constantine."

The man (boy?) reached out to shake a little too quickly, like he’d been waiting for it. “Richard Allen but everyone calls me Ricky, and I don’t mind the bitching so long as you leave some for me. Hey, are you one of those villains I’ve heard so much about?” His smile was somewhere between genuine and forced with a little worry underneath it.

“I’d consider myself a bit more of an anti-hero, really,” she answered instantly. It didn’t take much thought. Alignment to good or evil wasn’t something inherited, but in her case it was simple, because she was too much like her father. John Constantine might have saved many lives he stumbled across, but he was also a bit of a bastard while doing it, and that (to Biff, at least) was something to admire and emulate. “You know, a shade of grey. Don’t worry – I’m on the lookout for them so I know who to avoid like the plague.”

Giving Ricky a curious once-over, she decided that asking him if he was a villain would be a stupid question. More often than not, villains looked like villains. They were unoriginal, made of pure, distilled human suffering. “I’ve already got put person on my ‘let’s not meet’ list––Mister Molester over there.” She nodded in the direction of the guy she’d overheard harassing girls not too long ago. Tall, dark and rapey; scruffy in the sense that he looked like he had just finished up murdering hitchhikers with an ax… or his hand-knives.

Ricky glanced at the man in question, looking over just in time to see him aggressively jostle another student while stalking away from a small group. “Some people waste no time in making friends. I’d ask what happened but from the look of him and his new nickname, I think it’s probably better for my peace of mind that I don’t.”

He had a fidgety look about him, like he was aching to be doing something rather than just standing around at the gates, though Biff guessed he was always twitching in one way or another. Here and there, she thought she caught the hint of a blur around his movements, which probably explained his appearance from midair. After watching the newly nicknamed ‘Mister Molester’ move off, he turned back to her.

“So you’re an anti-hero, good to know. My whole family’s whiter than white so I don’t think I can go as far as grey, maybe cream if I’m lucky.” He paused for a few seconds. “How about yours? Are they involved in all this… thisness?”

“It’s not quite the same brand of ‘thisness’, if you catch my drift. Less super, more–– er…” Biff floundered for a minute as she tried to sum up demons, hauntings, vampires, and Hell in one neat turn of phrase. As she had learned as early as Primary School, speaking of those things to new acquaintances was a poor way to make friends and the quick way to standing all alone in the corner of the playground. Satanism and all such rot didn’t become cool until high school. “Magic. Yeah, let’s go with that. I’m sort of… following my dad’s footsteps with that.”

“Oh, wow, that’s awesome! Magic is such a fascinating branch of Quasi-Science, I’ve wanted to do a research paper on the interactions between hell-plane energies and the speedforce for ages but you’ve no idea how lamed my dad is about dimension hopping. You could…” He cut himself off, like he’d suddenly realised he was garbling.

“Uhm… Sometime you could help me with something like that, if you’re interested in occult theory. I’m pretty new to it but I learn very fast.” He said it with a straight face.

Biff was beginning to wonder if she was out of her depth here with the talk of speedforce and something-science, but if there was one thing she did understand, it was hell-plane energies. “I’m not the type to write papers and essays and all that, but you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more interested in the occult than me at the school. Most of what I know is oral tradition – sometimes it’s not safe to write stuff down – but if you meet up at some point, I can give you a crash course in all things mystical. Always did want an acolyte.” There was mischief in her barely-there grin. “Of course, it’ll cost you. I’m an equal trade sort of girl. You know, ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’. I’ve got some research of my own to do, and I could use a hand with it.”

“Acolyte sounds a bit ominous, I don’t have to wear a robe or anything do I? And what sort of things do you want to know? I’m happy to share but most of what I know is advanced quantum theory and practise, it’s all math with funny letters. Most people would rather do literally anything else.” He shrugged a little self consciously at the last, conscious of his own over self deprecation.

“While I’m sure I’ve got one lying around, no. And I dropped out of high school after my GCSEs, so no maths required, either.” She craned her neck to see if she could identify the library out of all the other buildings on the campus. It was on the leaflets – she ought to know the shape of it – and it was just about the only thing that stopped her from getting back in the car with Chas. “I could use an extra pair of eyes when I’m looking over the sixteenth century grimoires and Victorian journals. They’ve got some one-of-a-kinds in that library. Besides, you might learn something. Does that work for you?”

Ricky shrugged. “Works for me, sure. I’m like google for books, tell me what you want found and a few keywords and I’ll find it in 0.6 seconds. But it looks like we’re still stuck out here, any idea when they’re letting us into this place?” The buildings looked intimidating from outside the gates though also somewhat mismatched, like a they’d been built by committee rather than by a single guiding vision.

“Probably when we’ve all killed each other out of boredom and there’s only one left standing,” Biff replied glibly, running a hand over her short-cropped hair in a nervous gesture, though she hoped it looked nothing like one. She didn’t twist her hands around and around, or stutter and stumble over rapid-fire words, or any of the other visible signs of anxiety that people could identify – like sharks smelling blood on the water – but her heartbeat didn’t lie, and neither did the apprehension she felt when looking over in the direction of the academy.

Fake it ‘til you make it.

At least she wasn’t alone; she had a nerd with an as-of-yet-unknown power on her side. There was something familiar about his face and name, like Biff had seen someone who looked very similar on the telly once or twice after the treaty had been signed. That didn’t matter, in the end, as the only thing that did was if they were kindred (read: outcast) spirits or not. That remained to be seen. “I heard something about an assembly? If it is one, let’s sit up the back and hope we don’t have to sing Jesus songs.”

“Would Satan songs be more your speed?” Ricky quipped with an agitated smile.

“Think more Pink Floyd. ‘We don’t need no education...’”




@Knight of Doom@deyinger

Are real life faceclaims allowed? I've only been looking for them because I automatically assume that FC = real life people, and I've got a Pinterest for medieval ones to trawl through. I just wanted to check so that I can quickly change it up if I was wrong. =]
@Knight of Doom Would a guardsman in the Royal City be acceptable? Not a knight, but something more civilian, maybe.
Interested.
Working on characters on and off. I have two in the works =]

(Sorry @Polaris North - I can't think of much to fill a post with at the moment.)
I'm not in favour of any 4th wall-breaking heroes because few people do it well. I agree with @Caits that the toon character shouldn't have it, because it's silly, but I'm also uncomfortable because the objection seems to be in the name of making sure the Co-GM's Deadpool child is unique and special in the roleplay as the only one with the meta knowledge. Someone could make a child of She-Hulk and justify that power's placement – movies are not the be and end all of the comic book world. I feel like if it's banned for one person, it should be banned for everyone (including GMs) in the name of fairness, because right now it's quite alienating to see two different sets of rules for different people.

I don't know. I'm also worried that more arguments are going to develop, as we've already seen in the telepathy debacle, and also I think that the characters without the backing of a canonical parent (or two) are being placed at a disadvantage, because they don't have the 'lore' to back up huge lists of powers. People who have the creativity to create their own OC and put them in the roleplay shouldn't be shunted away as side-characters, and it certainly feels like that now.

Isn't there a rule somewhere that says all of the students are low-powered to begin with to allow room to grow?
@Caits Can we apply to control an NPC?

It's my life's goal to make the Halle Berry!Selina Kyle/Catwoman that could have been.
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