Master Jaster

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I'm starting back up school tomorrow, and at this point I won't be able to post on the side like I had planned.

I'll have to back out of this before it gets started. Sorry for the extra work I gave some people. Good luck and have fun.

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*lets out a sigh of relief*

I was worried that the RP might get cancelled or something when I heard you were unwell. I'd stopped working on Glandrëch's bio for fear that it might not be used. I plan on delving into and altering the altering extent of his powers as I write IC posts, as well as add and flesh out the husks. The character sheet was mainly just to get something out there.

The complaints were probably justified earlier, as the current character sheet has been nerfed.

EDIT: I've had a ton of questions that have been popping into and out of my head, so I'll post as many as I can remember here until you answer them. Then I'll make another post.

How do beings go about moving between realms? Is it a talent known only by a select few, or is it common knowledge?

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Bunnita said
Caught in the Riddle! Hiiiiiiiiiiii~~!!!Urms... not yet. But I will. She's gunna be lots different too^^ Oh, and I just like finished Genie's background (sorta) and like I still gotsta finish all those relations charts too >,<~!And lurverly charries!!! Yay!...except Demon God from the beginning of time up ^there!!!! @@ Whudufurks, MasterJaster! No really DUFURKS?! Does it live in the Carnival? Ewww... O,O! Ohhhh... or is it the big baddy bad up against us? Huh? Huh? HUH? Is it! Is it! IS IT?!?!? Readings of COSMIC IMPORTANCE!!! Yer breakin muh furkin' bunny brains over here!!!!! GAAAAHHH -dies- x,x!xDDDDNo for serious now... Big Daddy God Demon seems really powerful and all too much soul-manipulating like... is he a bad guy rival type against Mr. Seil?

He won't be involved with the circus at any point (hence the lack of all circus related CS subsections) and you guys will probably never see him unless Cindy likes and wants to use him for something. I would love for Seil to know of/possibly been acquainted with him at one point in time, but again that's all up to Cindy. I made him to be the primary antagonizing figure for Llewelyn's arc.

I also just removed the character ability to encase the souls of those who the husks interact with. That power was beside the point of the character's entire concept, so I thank you for pointing it out to me. Also, I'll go through and clarify this myself in the actual CS' at some point in the future, by "mortals" I was referring to beings who are human, or at least were, since that's what they're listed as in the bestiary. I was planning on limiting it to anyone born on E-arth who has a finite lifespan.

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Glandrëch Inferntia

Appearance:


Demonic Appearance:


Age:
Glandrëch has been active for millennia. His exact age would be somewhere near the birth of the human realm, E-arth.

Gender: Male

Species: Pure Demon

Most Used Power:
Glandrëch’s ability to link himself to mortals is the only ability he has needed to use, as through these links he appears to be able to control every aspect of one’s existence.
The truth behind these powers is that through physical contact, Glandrëch receives an impression of the past, present and future lives of the mortals he touches. It is not a specific “this is what will happen” vision that he receives, but a suggestive one that gives him glances of significant moments such as peaks in emotion and events of cosmic importance. The visions are principally composed of feeling, disjointed and spliced images, and occasionally words from another time.

When Glandrëch decides that he wants to link himself with a particular destiny, he, through direct physical contact, encases the person’s soul in stone. These encased souls can take on any form, but Glandrëch tends to turn them partially into small Octahedrons that he keeps for himself and partially into the stone rings that he gives to the "husks" whenever he feels it is most beneficial to him. The two objects are essentially the same thing, their only difference being their shape and size. They are not two halves of a whole, but the same entity sharing two spaces simultaneously. If one is destroyed, the other is destroyed, and the human body is rendered a soulless shell. This is how Glandrëch manipulates mortals for his own purposes, and also how Glandrëch ties himself to the souls of any mortal who comes into contact with the shell of a person he is manipulating. Through any form of emotional connection or interaction, giving or receiving any form of will, Glandrëch has the ability to mark the souls of any being known by one of his husks. He tends to leave the more inherently powerful souls alone (demons, angels, faeries), especially in his weakened, mortal state. Once marked, Glandrëch can gain an influence over weak-willed minds (children, mainly) and drive them to madness, or send one of his husks to kill these people. This is how he controls Llewelyn.

Husks Currently under his control:

Llewelyn Rorch - Human: Unwilling, defiant

Roanna Melsìne - Human: Willing, impassive


Roanna Melsine, born into a broken town with a broken father, took to sadism early in life. She would catch and mutilate local strays and constantly get into fights, all the while showing a complete disregard for authority. She was found by Glandrëch early in her late teens.

Abilities:

Significant/Special Belongings: Glandrëch was known as a collector of all things mystical and powerful before his downfall, ranging from books to trinkets, weapons (Glove of the Wander) to potions, and creatures to people. He currently only has a small fraction of what he once had. (I plan on expanding on what is left of his library over time).

Personality: Cold hearted, cruel, manipulative, and ambitious.

Biography:

Glandrëch’s origins are known only by the elite task force of old sweaty men lurking in my subconscious
In his prime, Glandrëch’s name was known across all the realms. He was a symbol of chaos and calamity, a boogeyman that mortals spoke of in hushed tones, fearing that the even the spoken idea of him carried some greater power. Glandrëch’s attacks would come without warning. His small but immensely powerful armies would appear without warning inside the walls of whatever city he decided to raze. These were simpler times, when not everything was connected as it is today, and the populations of cities were relatively tame. His army would empty entire cities, taking prisoners and killing the rest.
At first, his bated hunger for power was all that drove Glandrëch to slaughter and expand. It wasn’t until he found an item with power that was far beyond anything he had seen, an item that spoke to him of a universe without realms, that his mind was opened to a new form of thought. The item was a small gem that burrowed inside of whoever touched it. When it happened to one of Glandrëch’s husks, the shell spewed nonsense for several days, and then tore the gem out from within his chest, dying instantly. Glandrëch, for the first time in all of his life, contemplated the gem with interest for some time afterwards. The raids stopped, and his army of husks slowly grew anxious. While he had encountered soul-hungry relics like this one before, he felt something different resonating from this stone. A ancient knowledge that he felt was calling to him. It was after one whole year of waiting, one whole year of husks turning on each other and reducing Glandrëch’s army to a whisper of its once bellowing size, that Glandrëch picked the stone up. It burrowed inside of him the moment he touched it, piercing through his near impenetrable shell as if it were a fruit’s skin. A voice, louder and more intense than anything he had ever heard, spoke to him. It told him of the fabric of the universe, the realms, and time itself. It showed him visions of the past, the present in different realities, and the inevitable end that reality would one day meet.
The husks heard Glandrëch’s agonized screams from within his mansion. After days of this, Glandrëch finally emerged. He announced that the time had come for him to play his part in the history of being. For hundreds of years, Glandrëch scoured the Realms for items of power, cultivating a library with contents that could destroy planets. He kept his army smaller than it once was, equipping his soldiers with the best of the items he could find, and built loyalty and experience rather than numbers. It was when his army numbered 55 men and women he could trust that he made his move.

(in the works)

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Alright, sounds good. I didn't know how law-driven this RP was in terms of lore. I'll just go with what I was going to go with before I caught the "They will slaughter uncontrollably" line in the bestiary.

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Double post...

Stupid glitchy posting mechanisms =(

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I was looking for a means of straying from the idea that demons are violently and uncontrollably psychotic without outright making my particular demon go against its nature. I would think that if a demon was infected or tainted by something so nature altering as vampirism, it might cause his way of thinking to be altered.

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Hey SC or Prince, what would happen if a demon was turned into a vampire?

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Finally picked up on the italicized hint. I'm getting Indian food in a bit, so I'll try and get a little anime afterwards and write Glandrëch's character sheet (I won't be playing as him at any point in time, so I could just PM you all of it, Cindy).

...(At the same time it'd be very likely that other demons would have heard of Glandy before, so it would probably be best to post it here)

(One more thing before I go: I changed several things in my character sheet, the most notable being the time at which my character arrived at the carnival and the amount of souls he collected. I did this both so I could build relationships with other characters more naturally, and so I could grow accustomed to the world at the same pace that my character is)

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Llewelyn Rorch

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Significant/Special Belongings: The Glove of the Wander, a pair of brass knuckles that have been lined with iron, a charm that holds no power and grants no abilities, a stone ring that symbolizes Glandrëch’s ownership of Llewelyn and allows the two to communicate, a nice pair of sunglasses, and a crisp leather notebook.
Fighting Skills/Techniques: Versatile in hand to hand combat, skillful in knife/dagger combat, knowledgeable on the operation of firearms

Llewelyn, having grown up in the Azure, has been exposed to all sorts of different supernatural beings. This has caused him to become a very cautious fighter, picking his fights carefully and never underestimating his enemies.

Weapon of Choice:

Glove of the Wander: The Glove of the Wander was given to Llewelyn by the demon Glandrëch shortly before he joined up with the circus. The glove instantly molds with its user's body, causing the hand that wears it to be covered with symbols and markings, resembling elaborate tattoos. An untrained eye would only think that Llewelyn is an ink enthusiast. The most notable function of the glove is its 6 "shots" that it holds. The glove has the ability to fire 6 concentrated blasts of energy that can tear apart the fabric of whatever form of matter it comes into contact with. The 6 shots are represented by 6 hollow circles surrounding the insignia on the back of the user’s gloved hand. After each shot, the user will experience an icy/electric surge through their hand, and one of the circles will shrink, closing the gap inside of itself. Every time the sun rises (or whatever equivalent this is in the realm Llewelyn is in at the time) the shots reset. The glove also enhances its user's physical capabilities significantly and heightens the user's senses. While these physical and sensory buffs do make a large difference in the user's performance, they are not so extreme that the user will be able to do anything particularly superhuman. For example, A user would not be able to catch a bullet, but a knife thrown by someone without supernatural strength (ie: someone who couldn't throw the knife as fast as a bullet) could easily be caught. A user could also not lift objects of particularly heavy weight, such as a car or a horse. The sensory buffs apply only to sight and hearing.
Anyone who takes on such an item is cursed with sterility; Llewelyn will never be able to reproduce. The glove also allocates twenty years of the user’s predestined lifespan to itself.

How You Came to be in Azure: When he was 9 years old, Llewelyn’s parents traded him to the demon Glandrëch as a means to settle their debt. Glandrëch, ever gazing into the future, placed Llewelyn in the Azurian city of Krÿmias, a cross roads of the mortal and immortal realms; a place where Glandrëch knew Llewelyn would grow to be the husk he needed him to be.

Job Title & Description:

Llewelyn is part of a 2 man act involving daring acts of gymnastics and sleight of hand. From knife juggling, throwing, and the eventual catching, to cartwheeling and summersaulting through flames and other dangerous “things”. The untrained eye would see Llewelyn’s job as incredibly dangerous.

Number of Souls You Have to Collect:
((1,000,000))

Number of Years You Have to Collect Souls:
((200))

What Was Your Wish?
For the Demon Glandrech to regain his immortality.

How Many Souls Have You Collected?
0

How Long Have You Been at the Carnival?
I plan on the character's arriving at the carnival to be the first thing I write about in character.

How the Collection of Souls has Affected Your Character?

Having grown up a murderer and a thief, the act of collecting soul has not really swung Llewelyn one way or another. He sees the act as a necessary evil he must complete in order to preserve that which is important to him, as well as the promised eventual release from Glandrech’s service. The knowledge that he must collect as many souls as he must, as well as the time span he would inevitably be in this carnival has done much to crush Llewelyn’s spirits.

Personality

Llewelyn has always had trouble interacting with others. His life as a street urchin in one of the most dangerous cities in the realm has made it difficult for him to trust people, and the nature of his relationship with Glandrëch only furthered this sentiment. That said he is able to become well acquainted with others he works with or lives with for extended periods of time. His having a sister as a child has made it easy for him to get along with women, though the nature of his lifestyle, as well as recent medical developments, have made it difficult for him to maintain relationships.

Ugly Placeholder Bio

Llewelyn grew up in the slums of Krÿmias, one of the more dangerous cities of Azure. From age 9 to 20, Llewelyn’s life was constantly in the balance. The first couple of years of his life in Azure were spent with a small gang of young beings like himself, led by an 18 year old mutant. The gang would steal and mug to survive, a profession that led many of the members to early deaths due to the nature of the city’s inhabitants. For years Llewelyn bounced between gangs, betraying the weaker ones in order to ensure his survival and staying in line with the stronger ones. When Llewelyn was 14, his luck finally ran out. He had been a member of a gang, the first where he respected some of the members, and life was going relatively well for him.

On one particularly dreary day, two men showed up at the group’s hideout. The two were corrupt enforcers who were sent to kill all the members of this particular gang, as the gang had stolen from the wrong person at one point or another. Almost all of the gang members were killed, save Llewelyn and a few cowards who fled. Llewelyn was taken to a jail to have his soul removed and body harvested, but the carriage he was being transported in was struck by another one. Llewelyn killed the two enforcers while they were stunned, and fled into the city streets, mortally wounded and disoriented. He was found in a dumpster by and old warlock, who took pity on him and nursed him to health. When he woke up, Llewelyn stole some of the “shinier” objects he could see and fled. With the money he made from these objects, Llewelyn bought some nicer clothes and got a job at an inn. For about a year, things went smoothly. One day, a group of kids not to different than the ones Llewelyn used to run with held up the in. Accidents happened, and the inn was burned to the ground. Llewelyn was picked up by some enforcers who came to put out the fire. He was recruited into the city watch and worked as one of the men he used to and still did hate. (throughout this whole time, Llewelyn made close friends, lovers, and acquaintances who helped him through his time in the city. I just hate writing these summaries of character’s lives so I’ll go into them later)

((((^^^^^^^^FIX ALL OF THIS^^^^^^^^)))))

When he was 20, Glandrech's husks came for him. Llewelyn was brought to Glandrëch's hideout, an abandoned mansion in a secluded valley. It was here Llewelyn learned the nature of his relationship with Glandrëch, as well as the influence the demon had had over the events of his life. Llewelyn was given the stone ring, as well as an ultimatum: "Play the part we need you to, or bring hell to all those you hold dear". Llewelyn became one of Glandrëch's greatest husks, performing his jobs with efficient brutality and never voicing a word of complaint. Eventually, Glandrech gave Llewelyn a strange order: “Go to the carnival and get me my immortality back. Do this, and our ties are cut”.

Additional important notes

At some point, Llewelyn had twins. These children, along with everyone Llewelyn has ever met, are what Glandrech uses as leverage to control him. If Llewelyn were to die, his curse would be passed on to the next generation of his family. If Llewelyn disobeys an order or abandons his mission, the stone ring he wears will induce mind shattering pain and eventually kill him (unless he promises to never do whatever he did again, of course). The only way for him to be free of this curse is to do as Glandrech asks until his supposed eventual release, a time which Llewelyn can only hope for.

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