MisterGrey

Magik Ther Was

Once again, Eric checked the time on his phone. It was seven, now eight minutes past the hour. The possibility of the mystery person not showing up had always remained in the back of his mind, but the message had so heavily emphasized the time and place, he hadn't really considered it. It seemed he had gotten all worked up over nothing. It was a prank, or a mistake that he had received this message. The requested location's proximity to his own was a coincidence and nothing more.

"Tch," escaped through Eric's teeth as he left his resting place and started back down the way he came. He felt like an idiot for jumping to conclusions, and yet, he felt like there was still something he was missing. There was something wrong. Maybe there was something going on here after all. He took a step, then another, and another.

He stopped.

He had determined what was bothering him. Each of his footsteps sounded impossibly loud. When his shoe made contact with stone, the noise filled his ears. It was as if he was walking in a crypt. He couldn't hear the sound of countless other voices that had followed him since he had started living here. Even the crickets had gone totally silent.

Eric glanced at a broken light that had previously been in the process of being repaired by a park worker. The glass cover was on the ground, and wires hung out of the light, but the worker was gone. He shifted his gaze to the other side of a nearby pond, where there had been a young couple on a date. They had disappeared too.

But Eric wasn't completely alone. Behind him, there was the sound of another set of footsteps besides his own. Was this the person he was supposed to meet? He turned and looked back at the place he had been waiting, but it was just the seven or eight people that had been there before, one of them preparing to leave just as he was, and a man who was ridiculously dressed even by New York standards that had now appeared among them. There was no way...

"Is this some kind of a joke?" he said finally.

Video Games.....

Let's not forget about the cameraman yukking it up and recording his family disputes for Internet points.

Magik Ther Was

TaliPaendrag said
I posted. :D I hope that it's up to par! Also, I hope that it's okay for me to assume what day it is and the time of the year.I also altered the description of Paige. The picture I had used wasn't really what I wanted, but I didn't want to take too much longer looking for a picture and/or writing up a description because I knew you guys were waiting. Hopefully I'll be able to find a satisfactory picture before too long. :3

Truth be told I couldn't even see the picture in the first place. I didn't mention it because I figured it had to be something on my end. Your description was more than enough. I tend to write short physical descriptions myself. I find it kind of a drag. :P

Necroes said
Show of hands, who shares their gender with their character? Just curious.*raises hand*

This guy. I do RP females from time to time, but when I started working on my CS half the characters in the game were already women (and still are), so what the hell.

Video Games.....

I can't decide which one of them annoys me the most.

Magik Ther Was

Posted. Also, couldn't help but notice that my character seems to be missing from the cast list.

Magik Ther Was

As the subway he was riding traveled closer to the center of the city, Eric was absorbed by his phone. This wasn't particularly unusual for him, but what was strange was what was on the phone this time. That afternoon, he had received a text message, which was in itself a rare occurrence, but especially bizarre was the nature of the message. It had come out of nowhere, from a number he didn't recognize, and it only said one thing.

"Central Park, 9pm tonight."

That was all. No further explanation, not even directions to a specific meeting place. He doubted it could be a wrong number. Whoever sent the message knew very well that its recipient was in New York City. Nobody in the mundane world had any reason to contact him like that, which meant that the origin of the message was underground, magical, or perhaps even both. It was possible that someone had taken notice of his digging around, and was trying to help him. Or maybe, just the opposite, he had angered the wrong person during his days as a thief, and his past was about to catch up with him. Either way, it was something he would have to face, and if it turned out to be nothing then there would be no harm done.

It would have helped if they were at least a little more descriptive, though, Eric found himself lamenting as he arrived at his destination, How am I supposed to find one person in this huge-ass park? Of course, Eric had a strong suspicion that he would be the one being found. This mystery person had clearly been spying on him. All he would have to do is wait. In the meantime, he decided to do a more conventional park activity and take a walk.

Eric made his way through the network of pathways that spanned Central Park, passing by a good number of people on their own nighttime strolls. Three months prior, when he had been preparing to make the move to New York City, a few people told him that it was strange that somebody so withdrawn would choose such a crowded place to live, but Eric actually liked people, at least from a distance. The diverse population of the city could be interesting sometimes. And here, he had no connections. He was just another face in the streets. Nobody pitied him, judged him, or expected anything from him. But most importantly, where there were more people, there were bound to be more magicians as well.

Eventually the time came close to nine, and Eric ceased his walking and came to rest leaning against a lamppost. He checked his phone once again. 8:55. Whatever was going to happen was supposed to happen soon. Putting the phone away, Eric observed his surroundings. Could one of these people be the one who called him here? Perhaps he should try a small spell visible only to other magicians in order to draw them out. But no, there was still some time left until the appointed hour. He would wait a little longer. He tilted his head back, crossed his ankles, and stuck his hands in his pockets. His relaxation wasn't feigned. Whatever happened in the next few minutes, it would have to be pretty crazy to rattle Eric Tyler.

Magik Ther Was

Man, I'm horrible with character sheets. Better late than never, I suppose.

Eric Tyler

Name: Eric Tyler
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Occupation: Thief
Appearance: Appears to be 150lbs and 5’6”, but is probably a little taller because he slouches. Dark-haired, dark-eyed, and pale-skinned. Thin but clearly out of shape. Has medium-length hair and lacks facial hair.

Personality: Detached, apathetic, and sometimes downright rude, Eric has a tendency to repel people he meets. Like any person, he has things that he cares about, but they are few, and he usually doesn't reveal them. While the awakening of his magic has given him confidence in his ability to prosper, he still thinks of himself as a bad person and is afraid of what he might do, even though he genuinely wants to change his ways and help people.

Magic/Abilities: Eric has the ability to project his consciousness into objects and control them from within. Initially, he will be rather limited in terms of what he can possess, and complex machines, living creatures, and magical objects will be beyond his capacity, but all of these may become quite possible in the future. While more complex objects require more knowledge and experience to manipulate, larger objects require more raw magical power. At first, anything too big for Eric to carry physically will probably be too big for his power as well, but he will eventually be able to manipulate objects the size of an autobus. In short, the larger the object, the more quickly Eric uses energy as he manipulates it. Resisting factors such as enchantments on magical objects or the will of a living being factor into this as well.

The utility of Eric’s power also evolves over time. At his current level he can only transfer his consciousness into an object by touching it, and can only remain in control for short periods of time. Additionally, he must remain near his body. This will progress to being able to possess a target at range, then to being able to jump from host to host without returning to his body in between, and even remaining dormant within a host to remain separate from his body for extended periods of time.

The biggest weakness of Eric’s power is that it leaves his body helpless to attack. He can’t use any of his other magical abilities from within a host, and even if he becomes powerful enough to possess things with their own magical abilities, using them is inefficient because it exhausts Eric’s energy at a much faster rate than any regular activity, and it also exhausts the host as it normally would. Theoretically, if he were to truly master this ability, Eric could abandon his body and take over a new one as if it were his own, but it is unlikely he will ever reach this level.

Bio: Growing up, Eric was what one might call a loser. His grades were poor, he wasn’t very athletic, he didn't have a hobby of any kind, and he had few friends. It wasn’t that he was a victim- in fact, he wasn’t a particularly kind person at all. Courtesy was just another entry on the list of things Eric Tyler didn’t bother with. His family tried to help him, but he remained lifeless throughout his entire adolescence.

It wasn’t until his graduation day that Eric realized he had to make a change. As he stood there, surrounded by people who were moving into their futures, the fact came to him that he wasn’t going anywhere at all, and he had nobody to blame but himself.

For the next year, Eric seemed to be frozen in time as he stayed with his parents and worked minimum wage jobs. He was sure that there was no way out of the rut he had found himself in. Eventually the sheer desperation tripped something in his brain, and his power was awoken.

Newly aware of the magical world around him, Eric pursued local sources of information and began learning his first spells, as well as developing his natural power. Things were finally starting to look up for him, as with the aid of magic he was able to make enough money to rent an apartment and support himself.

However, his living wasn’t an honest one. Eric had turned his magic on other people, and was using low-level illusion spells to cheat, manipulate, and outright steal from those who were oblivious to the existence of magic. At first it didn’t faze him. For a long time, the only thing that mattered to him was the fact that he was finally successful. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he didn’t think about it too much.

He couldn’t ignore it forever, though, and when the guilt hit him, it hit him hard. Eric knew that benefiting at the expense of others wasn’t justified no matter how unfortunate he had been previously, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t stop. He was addicted to power.

Ultimately, Eric decided that there was still a lot he didn’t know about magic, and that if he were to learn more, he might find a way to live decently, and a chance at redemption. With that hope, he began to entangle himself in the world of magic.

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The Walking Dead

TheMusketMan said I'm talking about the ending of Season 2 especially, if you haven't played it yet, go do that...right now. Stop reading this and go play it.

Interesting. I got them both in a sale and the second season has been sitting in my library for awhile. I've been meaning to play it for some time, I guess I will have to do that.

The Walking Dead

The impact for me was a bit lessened because I was expecting it the whole time, but it still kind of came as a shock when he just got bitten out of nowhere.

RDR, though, that was waaaaaaaaay out of left field. I'm glad I was still a console player when that game came out, because everything about it was fantastic.

Magik Ther Was

I'm also still planning on joining. I have an assignment that I need to finish before I can get my CS done. No need to wait for me though. If I don't have it up tonight, I definitely will by the time everyone gets their intro posts done.