Lo Pellegrino

The Elder Scrolls: Rage of the Waves

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I think under these circumstances it's fair to evaluate who you are working with.

@idlehands

They just mad cuz Faruq and Gaela got swag. Haters gun hate, we know they thirsty and we on fleek. #judgeyaf

XD

The Elder Scrolls: Rage of the Waves

I have to admit I really took a liking to Gaela that I hadn't expected. So much so in fact that I couldn't help but start a new Skyrim play through inspired by the less confrontational, Mage/monk model. I love that about these games, the characters are just wells of opportunity.

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@Idlehands and I are nearly done with our collab. Our characters seem to both be a touch judgey, almost deserving of a team name I'd say. #TeamJudgeYou #SoNotTalkingAboutYou

Game of Thrones

@Darcs I'd say Arya is clearly taking over Lady Stoneheart. They seem to be toying with this sense of familial inheritance, overtly passing Catelyn's strategic mind to Sansa and offering Arya her sense of retribution. It's not the books, that's for sure, but I will say that's not a bad thing. They are creating a sense of time repeating with Bran already, we also saw a lot of Ned in Robb and now in Jon as well. They're creating something interesting inspired by the source material.

Game of Thrones

So, I just need to share my predictions with someone. I always hate sitting quietly only to find others coming across the same ideas and feeling as if I missed an opportunity. Let's stop that from happening, aye?

Crazy Theories

1. Daenerys will split her party upon arriving in the 7 Kingdoms.
2. Cersei Lannister will renew efforts against Winterfell through Riverrun, unaware of Daenerys early on and to mad to withdraw after.
3. Tyrell will rally Dorne and High Garden. Casterly Rock will fall fairly early as a blow to Cersei's ethos.
4. Cersei will grow increasingly unhinged, pressuring Jamie to stand strong where his sister falters. She will reflect the Mad King and Jamie will become a red herring for the 'little brother' promised to kill her.
5. Littlefinger will seek to enforce his relationship with the Lannisters, Cersei specifically, after seeing what happened in Winterfell.
6. Sansa will assume Littlefinger's play by marrying Robin Arryn and becoming Lady of the Vale. This will create tension, placing Littlefinger into more stress than we have seen before. Sansa will effectively be the Warden of the East.
7. Jon Snow and Sansa will secure Riverrun, securing the total of their ancestral lands.
8. The Greyjoys will return to the Iron Islands after their hand in conquering Casterly Rock.
9. Bran will bring news of Jon's true birth shortly after Riverrun, Winterfell, and the Eyrie are under Stark control.
10. Jon Snow will cross paths with Tyrion, forging a soft alliance to end hostilities from King's Landing.
11. As the forces begin to close upon King's Landing Cersei will be truly mad, Jamie in shambles as he edges closer to renewing his name as Kingslayer.
12. Ayra, with the face of Tyrion Lannister, will kill Cersei.
13. Jon Snow and Daenerys will be politically wed.

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I'll discuss Faruq's injuries in PM or on the Doc.

Also, does Gaela prepare ointments for crotch issues, or simply cut the problem area off?

Cold Front

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Well, Mary-Louise herself is probably the most liberal member of her family, and living in Seattle (and travelling all over the world - especially to the Far East!) means that she is probably more exposed to different cultures and races than most people back home in Wilmington.

So she is probably not actively racist. BUT, she has been raised in a typical, relatively well-off WASP household, and growing up she would have went to a segregated high school and had family staff who were all African-Americans. So her upbringing is inevitably going to color her relations with people of other races. Julian's status as a war veteran, however, would likely be thought-provoking for her.

@TheMoatedGrange

I can dig it. Worth asking considering the time period and her place of birth. I imagine it'd be interesting for Mary-Louise to engage with Julian, as you said, military history seems to relate them both together one way or another.

While it was still prominent in the south, it was by no means a rule that people were prejudice against others. My father is a baptist minister, and he was born in 58'. He's never liked the idea of racism, and I don't believe my grandparents did either (we live in Alabama btw, though a lot of my family is in florida). Though yes, it could almost be a cultural thing to where you get used to having to deal with racists. Even I have, a little bit. I was born in 91' btw. Guess it helps I have a lot of native american ancestry.

@POOHEAD189

Absolutely. I asked since, as I mentioned, my great-grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher in Georgia. He was born in the '20s, originally in Germany, and held beliefs not uncommon of the times in terms of race. I felt it worth asking, after all, this game takes place 15 years after Brown v. Board of Education, 4 years after MLK Jr's assassination, and the same decade as the Civil Rights Movement. Racial prejudice is factor in these times and it seemed worth inquiring as to whether this was something @TheMoatedGrange intended to explore IC. Undoubtedly, it would make a lot of sense and create great potential for character interaction. Anyway, the question was purely in regards to IC, and frankly neither of our personal lineages should come into play -- that is to say, it's fictional, so no need for either of us to be offended, aye?

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@Lo PellegrinoI use Google docs usually. I can send a link tonight.

@idlehands

Sounds good by me. I have a little time now before work, so I'll put together a brief bit of Faruq to enter with. I look forward to seeing the invite tonight!

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@Lo Pellegrino

:D Drunken Dunmer Badass at your service.

@Hellis

You know being in a tavern as we are now, I imagine it's a great scenario for a drunken Dunmer to emerge. Otherwise, p'haps these are hard times for Valen and he's among the lads and lasses with their soft parts exposed outside? I kid, I kid.

Cold Front

Sheet

Mary-Louise 'Lulu' Crawford

^{Female | 25
5'6 | 130lbs
American | Flight Attendant}

Profile

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Appearance:

Mary-Louise stands at just a little under average height, and is also of about average weight. She has an attractive face (one of the prerequisites for her job - getting posted on the international flights is only for the best of the best) with a smattering of freckles that she hides with make-up. Her hair is dyed blonde and kept closely cropped in a fashionable bob, but naturally it is auburn, a fact almost betrayed by her light green eyes and pale complexion. She has long, carefully manicured lashes and plucked eyebrows as well as a well-maintained manicure, all of which are signs that her job demands that she remain in peak physical condition on an aesthetic level at all times. Her teeth are straight and white, and on closer examination they show signs of relatively recent readjustment.

Her voice has a reassuring southern twang to it, and though in the cabin she scales it back to maintain a calm air of professionalism, when amongst friends she becomes increasingly southern to the point of incomprehensibility at times. Her manner is generally endearing, though, and it's obvious why she has been so successful at her job in the past.

Background:

Mary-Louise Crawford was born to a middle-class Baptist family of Scottish and German descent in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1944 to Reginald and Marietta Crawford. Her father was a US Marine who was killed on Okinawa before Mary-Louise was born, and she was raised by her mother's second husband Clarence Smallsford, who was a family doctor. She has three young half-siblings, the youngest of whom is fourteen years old now.

Lulu had a comfortable life growing up - she was popular at school, but unfortunately did not show the intellectual aptitude of her eldest half-sister Sylvia (who is currently attending Vassar College). Upon leaving, Lulu spent a lot of time soul-searching while working as a typist at her step-father's practice. After an engagement went awry in Wilmington, she decided that she had to leave and moved in with Sylvia for a few months while she searched for a new job. Eventually, she was picked up by Northwestern Airlines, and her warm, charming manner and general good looks meant that she was bumped up quickly to serving first-class on international routes. Leaving her family behind in North Carolina, she moved to Seattle, where she lives a newly liberated life as a bachelorette in the city with her flight attendant friends between jobs.

She has recently become engaged to a servicemen on deployment in Vietnam, and was considering downsizing back to domestic routes so that she can consider eventually quitting and starting a family.

Personality and Outlook:

Fundamentally a Christian, Lulu is also generally quite laidback and optimistic. Life has, so far, usually gone her way and though she is not necessarily an intellectual, she has developed great pragmatic and inter-personal skills that allow her to adapt easily to most social situations. Her optimism may have been damaged somewhat, however, by the deaths of the other crew members.

Lulu is an extrovert and a 'people person' and has worked hard over the years to deal with challenging social situations at work, so staying friendly with the other survivors and ensuring that communication does not break down is going to be one of her most important objectives.

Capabilities

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Skills:

First aid training - Part of Lulu's work with Northwestern involved training for a variety of minor to major medical incidents, and she is going to be able to help with most small injuries accrued during the survivors' attempts to stay alive.

Navigational skills -Again, another crucial element of Lulu's training was developing navigational skills in the event of a crash. She will be able to lead the group in some direction or other at least.

Radio skills -If any section of the plane's cockpit survives, Lulu will be able to operate the radios to send out distress signals and other communications with passing planes.

Interpersonal skills - Definitely her strongest suit, and the reason why she was always so successful in her job. It might be important for her to keep up morale and mediate in disputes in the coming hard times.

Weaknesses:

Trauma - Lulu isn't in the best mental state directly after the crash - the other flight attendants and the pilots were people that she had personally known for years, and were people with whom she had flown the route many times before.

Lack of survival skills - Growing up in the city and being groomed to be an ultra-feminine stewardess didn't leave much scope for Lulu to develop her wilderness coping skills.

Lack of leadership skills - Though Lulu was instrumental in ensuring preparations as the plane went down in a calm and collected fashion, her ability to lead the group after the actual crash is going to be minimal - she is definitely likely to be more of a follower than a leader in this regard, as she looks for someone more authoritative and experienced than herself.

Inventory

- Stewardess uniform, slightly damaged.
- Fur coat, salvaged.
- First aid kit, slightly damaged.
- Purse, containing set of house keys, $3 US, a small postcard of a man's face.
- Change of shoes, socks, underwear, toothbrush.

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Opinions

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@TheMoatedGrange

I must ask, time period and what not, as a southerner what would Mary-Louise's initial feelings about surviving alongside Julian be like? I understand she is a people person, but my paternal line originates from the south, baptist too, and they did not adapt quickly to the idea of a coloured child entering the family -- and that was in '91.

I do enjoy Mary-Louise. She is plays on the independent woman emerging around this time, making her move out from the south into a more forward thinking region even more understandable. I would love to see her skills making others comfortable and de-escalating people be applied in a high-stress situation like this.