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Growth-Spurts of a Demon

(WIP)

Character Sheet

Name: Yule Van Victus

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Orientation: Student at Ryuts College Year 10

Appearance(Physical: Fair skin, slim athletic figure, 6'1" with relatively long legs and large hands. Steel grey eye and hair colour, long silky hair length usually warn tied back.

Appearance(Attire: Yule wears a black button up long sleeved shirt over a black or grey singlet. He wears loose fitting long black dress pants with a dark brown leather belt. Yule wears black square rimmed glasses for his short sighted vision.

Bio: Yule is quite an independent character and is somewhat socially inept, he doesn't get along well with others and that's the way he likes it. Though he often finds himself disadvantaged at the lack of social interaction. Sometimes harsh, Yule is quick to push others away, however, he often softens up to those who push back harder out of a mixture of submissive acceptance and a recognition of the advantages a friend could bring. Yule lacks confidence but makes up for this with his stoic form of bravery and courage, which he has quite a lot of.

Yule's partner demon is a fungus, more specifically, mushroom themed demon named Shroomshi. Yule has a deep seeded interest in fungus and the types of spores Shroomshi has produced has invoked a curiosity and likeness in Yule never before seen. Through a series of what could be described as reckless and unusual events, Yule came to discover medical and health properties to smoking specific parts of some of the strains of fungus Shroomshi has produced. Yule has taken to smoking a pipe regularly, an act that often gets him odd looks, though the demon does well to distract from this.

History: Yule originally was born and lived in Wistoh for most of his life, he attended an expensive school in Wistoh and did quite well at most of his subjects. However, his cold, anti-social nature often drew negative attention to himself from both his peers and his superiors. Yule often turned away social engagement from fellow students and teachers in a harsh manner. Despite this Yule had a female admirer throughout his school years who would try to get close to him on several occasions. In the ninth grade Yule his female admirer poured her heart out to the young man, although surprised, Yule reacted as he always did, with harsh words and an abrupt leave. This drew the attention of other students who had not like Yule in the first place, believing he had done to purposely make the young girl cry they confronted him. Yule's lack of tact and cold shoulder provoked an attack and ultimately Yule was expelled from the school, due to his additional previous offences of being rude to the teachers and principle.

Unsure of what to do, Yule's parents decided to send him to Ryuts College in the hope that a change of setting and set of dorm life responsibilities would trigger some sort of positive change in their only son. It seems to have had somewhat of an affect as Yule has begun pursuing some of his interests, in particular, his enjoyment of growing fungus and mushrooms.

Ambitions: Yule wishes to expand his fungus farm with Shroomshi's help.

Likes: Mushrooms/Fungus, Autumn, Stormy Weather, Reading, Shroomshi, His Pipe, Coffee

Dislikes: Crepidotus Fungus, Summer, Hubris, Reality T.V., Censorship

Negative Traits: Stubborn, Anti-social, Lack of Confidence, Doesn't understand others well

Positive Traits: Courageous, Curious, Independent, Responsible

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Demon Sheet

Name: Shroomshi

Birth: Yule had collected some spores from an unusual species of Puffball mushroom he had found in the forest of a nearby park, hoping to be able to identify the species Yule cultivated the spores and checked on it daily. He became worried as the ball structure of the mushroom began to grow much larger than he expected, eventually the ball of the mushroom burst open under the weight of the figure inside. The new-borne demon took to Yule instantly.

Theme: Fungus

Appearance: [Reference: Img A(Head & Stem Structure) | Img B(Mouth Structure)]
Img A shows the type of head 'bulb' structure as well as the relative thickness of the 'stem' of the demon. The demon is about 50cm tall with it's 'bulb' having a diameter of roughly 20cm to 30cm. The stem of the demon constitutes most of it's height with the lower part of the stem thickening out slightly, the bottom of the stem has a slight indent in the center giving the bottom of the stem a curved 'w' outline, these are the Shroomshi's legs. Shroomshi also has two small rounded arms that don't have hands or fingers at the sides as well as a large round belly shape holding it all together. Shroomshi's face sits on the stem just bellow where the bulb hangs down. Shroomshi has two black beady eyes and a small mushroom as seen in Img B sits in place of where his mouth would be. Shroomshi is not able to use this little mouth bulb to talk but instead uses it to puff out different kinds of spores.

Bio: Shroomshi is quite an awkward character, often ignoring or shunning strangers and acquaintances, often also displaying this behaviour to Yule when Shroomshi doesn't get what he wants. Shroomshi exemplifies Yule's inability to understand others very well quite aptly by invading others privacy when he's curious, ignoring requests and commands until they no longer need to be done or responding negatively to praise. Shroomshi's figure isn't geared towards mobility, however, he is quite an apt climber, using his squishy arms and legs and tight grip to 'caterpillar' his way up a surface. He often does this to climb up Yule and then hang onto the top of his Yule's head, making Yule appear to be wearing a large mushroom on his head.

Shroomshi consumes nutrients in an usual manner for fungus, he has another part of his body that he is able to separate from and re-attach to as well as re-grow should he need to. This is his 'Mycelium' which is a large collecting of thread like 'roots' called Hypha that collect and transport nutrients much like the roots of a tree. The mycelium grows through and around Shroomshi's food, often times a decaying log, and released a chemical that slowly breaks down his food and allows it to be absorded by the mycelium and transported to Shroomshi.

Abilities: Shroomshi is able to produce exotic spores that do not exist anywhere else that grow into a large variety of unique and often dangerous forms of fungus. Shroomshi is also an expert at hunting out fungus and decaying plants and carcasses in the wild. Shroomshi's presence promotes faster fungus growth as well as fungus health, sometimes even producing different coloured variants of existing mushrooms that taste better or grow better. Finally, Shroomshi is able to control the structure and growth of his mycelium, even being able to use his mycelium to 'hijack' other fungus' species mycelium and control the function of the hijacked mycelium entirely, allowing him to choose how well it grows, the structure of the mushrooms that grows and when it grows.

Likes: Fungus, Slugs, Fungivores, Autumn, Rain, Humid Weather, Decaying Carcasses, Cats, Yule

Dislikes: Bears, Animal Control, Birds, Coffee, Yule

Exp. Negative Traits: Stubborn; when Shroomshi is determined to do something, it'll be done. Like wise, when Shroomshi has made his mind up, there is no way around it.
Anti-social; Shroomshi is a fan of giving people the cold shoulder, he is especially fond of puffing a cloud of peppery spores in the faces of those who don't give up.
Lack of Confidence; This cancels out a solid manifestation of independence in Shroomshi, causing Shroomshi to be quite scared of leaving Yule's side and going off on his own, except in specific circumstances.
Doesn't understand others well; the source of Shroomshi's many unique and unusual behaviours when interacting with others.

Exp. Positive Traits: Courageous; spooky corridors, unusual sounds and utter darkness don't phase Shroomshi one bit, unless bears involved.
Curious; Shroomshi likes to know what makes thing a do action b and he'll pursue any activity that gives him that answer enthusiastic.
Independent; Quite dampened by his lack of confidence, Shroomshi rarely shows signs of independence, often clinging to Yule. However, in his bouts of stubborn curiosity, Shroomshi's courageous and independent nature shines brightly as he aims to achieve his goal.
Responsible; Despite his stubbornness, Shroomshi has a basic understanding of how he should prioritise and will often put his health, then Yule's health, before any crazy scheme to fill his curiosity, though this isn't always the case.

Oh god, not another noob!

Welcome to the guild, I hope you enjoy your time here.

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Growth-Spurts of a Demon

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March 19^th, 2013
"A concerning number of reports of unusual little creatures running around has been growing recently in small rural areas. Local authorities say that investigations into these reports have revealed nothing and that they suspect a prank that may have started on the internet is to blame."

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August 3^rd, 2013
"An unusual new video has been making the rounds on the internet recently of a strange jelly like creature hanging off and following a young man around. The video comes from Dongguan, China and has many viewers scratching their heads, we've brought a special guest who has many years of experience with CGI and special effects and who claims that the video is fake. Find out who our guest is and why they think the video is fake this evening at 5."

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February 26^th, 2014
"Disturbing news today as new security footage reveals what caused the death of four animal control professionals. The quality of the footage and the position of the camera makes it difficult to make out what happens exactly, but it appears that moments after animal control corner the creature that had broken into the supermarket late Thursday night, a cloudy residue can be seen leaving the creature and seconds later the four young victims fall to the ground motionless."

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April 9^th, 2014
"Tonight we have Reverend Coal with us who believes he can shed some light on the growing number of attacks and appearances of these unusual creatures that have scientists world wide, absolutely baffled." - "Yes Thank you, we cannot rely on the word of science to reveal the mysteries of these creatures, because by their very nature they transcend science. We've been saying it for years and finally our proof, the fruits of our faith is before you. These creatures are demons and their appearance marks the beginning of the end times!" - "Let me interrupt you real quick Reverend, I'm sorry but doesn't that seem a bit far-fetched?" - "If I had told you a year ago, that a creature only knee high could kill three adult men and one adult women without even touching them, you'd have said that be far-fetched too would you not? What of the story of the young man in Russia, he was viciously attacked by one of these creatures and lost his left hand to it in one bite! You could expect that type of damage from a shark, but a knee high creature? The fact of the matter is, that these creatures are not related to any animals we know of and we have yet to come across any two of-of these demons that look exactly like one another. I tell you, these are not animals, these are demons!"

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May 7^th, 2014
"Tonight we have another guest with us to speak about the demons and Reverend Coal's remarks last month on our show as well as the quickly growing international movement that has been gathering in response to the Reverend's recent television appearances and talk rallies. The world's leading expert on animal behavioural science with over 20 years of experience as a Zoologist, Professor Xen Ming." - "Thank you for having me on, to get straight to the point; Reverend Coal's remarks are absolutely detrimental to discovering what these creatures are. The Reverend's speech about the end times and demons has only served to worsen the situation with these creatures when we should be looking at ways to study them." - "And your view of the exponentially growing number of attacks?" - "Attacks? Even a cursory glance at the footage collected can show that these creatures were giving warning signs, they were defending themselves." - "So you call fifteen dead and over thirty injured people, world wide, defence?" - "Yes, when we demonize these creatures we paint a false dichotomy of it's either us or them. It is no surprise people are going to attack these creatures, likely in a hope that it will leave and wont come back." - "So what do you propose then Xen? We let them have free reign to our food? Let them waltz into our homes and do what ever they want?" - "No, of course not. But shouting monster and grabbing your pitch forks will only bring us more harm. How about we stop looking at these creatures as 'demons' and start looking at them as animals, how about we put aside our emotions and start looking for a solution that will help both us and these creatures progress forward."

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Growth-Spurts of a DEMON

Welcome to G.S.D. a slow pace slice of life sandbox RP based around little creatures known as 'Demons'. The origin of these creatures changes from demon to demon, but depending on their individual aspects, abilities and appearances, they can often have fairly humble beginnings. Despite their name, they are often naturally extremely docile and gentle little creatures, they just happen to get scared pretty easily when they're alone. The ultimate goal of a demon is to find it's partner, usually a person who played some part in the demons birth. These little critters will search their entire lives until they find the one that resonates with them on a level that we humans can't seem to understand.

Now, it'd be wrong for me to say that all of the demons are completely gentle, as they have an unusual knack of tacking on some of the positive and negative traits of their creator and expressing them to slight extremes at times. That means if a demon owner has an anger problem, you might want to keep an eye on his pet. Now demons aren't just mere pets in uncommon forms, they all have a particular theme to them and they exemplify unusual and amazing feats related to their theme. For example, a rose themed demon can manipulate roses and help them grow faster, they can also produce their own special seeds of types of roses that don't even exist! There is even rumour of a canine themed demon that is able to communicate with dogs and help make them smarter, some versions of the rumour even suggests that prolonged time spent with this demon has changed the markings and colour of some of the dogs fur as well as made them bigger.

But owning a demon isn't all sunshine and lollipops, besides the fact that they take on some negative traits of the owner, they're also ostracised in many parts of the world and especially amongst specific religious congregations. Despite the positive progress in regards to the demons in many areas of the world, thanks to people like Professor Xen Ming, typically an unsupervised demon will be apprehended quite quickly and violently to prevent civil harm. Not to mention the rumours of demons belonging to greedy, angry people being used in illegal underground fighting competitions. Reverend Coal also remains quite a popular, vocal figure in regards to the creatures, it is his fault that they have come to be known as demons after all. However, there has still been progress made for demon rights as well as understand these creatures, in fact one bacteria based demon has helped produce all kinds of new revolutionary medicine, though they're still under trial and research.

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Setting:

The sandbox of this RP is a little town that goes by the name of 'Glis', Glis is a medium size rural town who's main export is wood and agricultural goods. Glis was one of the first towns to start having demons around openly, as a few demons in particular owned by local labourers and agricultural works found that working with their demons produce more bountiful harvest more frequently. The local logging industry has also boomed due to enhanced tree growth. Glis is the first town in the world to enlist demons and their owners as both workers and even offer the owner of a demon an extra stipend with the condition it is used primarily for the care of the demon.

Regardless, there are still many in Glis who express anger or fear towards these creatures, but typical attitude as grown to accept the idea that demons will be seen out and about with their owners. If nothing less, some justify it as more of an acceptance to allowing them to work, since their large contribution has become an irrefutable fact.

The city of Wistoh is only an hour from Glis and is a rather large, bustling metropolis of commerce and culture. Most of the agricultural goods sold in Glis goes to Wistoh supermarkets and restaurants while a portion of Glis' timber goes to Wistoh's industrial zones. Demons aren't quite as accepted in Wistoh as they are in Glis and often people seen wondering around with demons are assumed to be 'country bumpkins' from Glis.

Locations

The following is a list of note-worthy locations in Glis.
Glis

• Ryuts College - A prestigious boarding school nearly on par with the most expensive schools in Wistoh. Many students from surrounding towns and cities attend this college. It is said that a very wealthy business man who owns much of the timber industry in Glis funds the school privately as an incentive to help Glis grow. The school offers undergraduate level degrees in certain fields for students who have graduated from year 12 there.
• Vull Caf - One of the three competing cafes of Glis, they serve as one of the rare tourist locations. Vull Caf takes an urban casual style to their appearance and menu.
• C-Net - Another of the three competing cafes, C-Net is an internet cafe with a heavy emphasis on convenience.
• Demon Cafe - A demon friendly business with a Coffea themed demon who helps produce exclusive organic coffee bean types grown by the store. Though it's pretty much consensus they have a lot of practice and trial and error ahead of them before their exclusive coffee beans become the dominant feature of their cafe.
• Parks - Glis has several large parks along the border of the town where large trees grow, the parks are designated as off limits to the local timber industry.

Other basic industries you'd find in a town exist also. The above are just the most note worthy features of Glis, it is worth mentioning that Glis has only one library and it's collection is relatively small. Glis also lacks anything resembling a shopping mall and only has one supermarket.

^{Character Sheet}

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_{Demon Sheet}

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Key: [Exp. Negative/Positive Traits] - Means to what extent does the demon have negative trait and positive trait of the owner. For example, if your negative trait is that you have a bit of a temper, then type down how this is expressed through your demon in the Exp. Negative Traits: section, whether it be that the demon can get angry at others too easily and become stand-offish or maybe they have a violent fit at somewhat minor offences. Ect.
[Birth] - How did the demon originate? Often the case for plan based demons, they were planted and grew extremely quickly underground, over a period of a month or two. Animal themed demons could originate from deceased pets or pre-existing juvanile animals could become demons when fed/cared for by a person. This can also be the case for animals that hatch from eggs. If you cannot think of a method that you're happy with, merely write 'Unknown' and add a sentence or two about how the demon came to you.

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Can you understand this enough to write with it?

The way it reads to me is layers are kind of like shifting from one dimensional plane to another.

@Revans Exile

That too would be a good way to explain it, though I needed to ensure an emphasis on the 'x', 'y' and 'z' position idea for certain spells detailed later in the article. Thank you for your feed back.