The Angry Goat

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

I finally logged back onto this forum :V

anyone got plans for new posts soon, or want to collab?

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

I mean im still here

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

Joseph, The Wizard

Give me another like, 30 years, and I might figure out what I'm doing

Joseph | 22 | M | S | Northampton, England, Earth 19281

P E R S O N A L I T Y

❖ Experimental
❖ Somewhat Cowardly
❖ Catches on quickly
❖ Vociferous reader
❖ Master Strategist

You can mostly expect me to be in the interest of collecting information and learning new things. Separated as he may be from his home universe, Joseph is not separated from his connection to the Arcane magic that permeates the folds of all universes, poor as he may be at this moment at tapping into it, and a lot of his information gathering is focused on this. He would also like to actually figure out how to work this hat (not knowing that there isn't really a defined solution to getting it to work). In combat, he is generally inclined towards attempting powerful feats with the hat - usually things turn our alright, if not at all in the ways he expects.

C H A R A C T E R A P P E A R A N C E

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P O W E R S & A B I L I T I E S

Camddealltwriaeth - the hat of ultimate power. Also hard of hearing, a bit stubborn, and is only fluent in welsh. All things considered, Joseph has about a 5% chance to get it to do exactly what he wants. also it's stuck on his head. makes it a bit annoying to sleep with.
Second Level Wizard - Joseph is a low level magic user in his universe, capable of producing relatively low-power magical effects a few times per day.

H I S T O R Y

Joseph the travelling Wizard is a low level adventurer from a Pathfinder campaign set on an Earth-copy Fantasy universe who accidentally came across an extremely powerful artifact made by a rather eccentric and extremely powerful wizard, Gneradnyp Sloamjest. Gneradnyp chose to give the hat almost as much power as he himself had, but also chose to make it intelligent, and nearly impossible to use. he then created a dungeon out of nothing, filled it with treasure and monsters that posed little challenge to any but the newest of adventurers, and put the hat on the head of a zombie in the middle of it, hoping that some hapless low-life would end up with the hat and provide him with some entertainment for a bit.

Joseph has accomplished many great feats with this hat, including but not limited to
-accidentally polymorphing a dragon into a 14 foot tall hamburger
-stopping a flood by creating a small volcanic eruption under it
-turning his body into a remarkably rubbery, bouncy, and impact resistant form for 3 weeks, with the major disadvantage that the form also made him morbidly obese
-accidentally transporting himself to this universe last monday.

M O T I V A T I O N

This world is considerably safer and more interesting to him than the one he came from, so he's actually mostly interested in actually making a name for himself here and having a reason to stay. so far, being a "superhero" is the thing that most closely aligns with his skillset, so here he is. He is also somewhat moral, and does value saving lives.

I N V E N T O R Y

-The usual mage stuff: bat guano, salt, a small femur bone, etc.
-a cloak that makes him slightly more resilient to some magic effects
-his familiar, a cat name Fuzzy the Magnificent
-his book of spells

S T R E N G T H S & S K I L L S

❖ Information gathering and retention
❖ Magic and magical discovery
❖ quickly catches on to new ideas, concepts, etc.

W E A K N E S S E S & F L A W S

❖ see the hat's description
❖ Not at all equipped to end up on the frontlines of combat. he has a hat, a cat, and a funny little book.
❖ completely normal human. he dies to a well-placed bullet
❖ for whatever reason, completely unable to comprehend welsh. He's tried. He thinks it might be related to the hat.

M I S C E L L A N E O U S

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

Joseph, and his magic hat, Camddealltwriaeth. Camddealltwriaeth is one of the most powerful magical artifacts in the multiverse, but it is, unfortunately, very hard of hearing. This difficulty in hearing is made even worse by the fact that it is a Welsh artifact, and Joseph is only capable of speaking English. The hat is also rather proud, and doesn't take kindly to being yelled at or ordered around too much.

While Joseph is theoretically capable of wielding reality-bending powers beyond the comprehension of even himself, he only has about a 5% of things actually going the way he intended. Something usually happens though.

One of the more recent somethings was Joseph being shifted from his universe to this one, which does much to explain the fact that he is dressed and equipped more like a fantasy character than a superhero.

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

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The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

wanted to get in some actual emotion out of Stina for once. for those curious, his ring



it also currently doesn't have any power - though it might just be dormant. Pretty much I'll only make it do something if it fits the dramatic arc of a part of the story much later on and Lovejoy is ok with it doing something :P

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

Cero was a beautiful city, the only one of the subjugated lands to really stand up to the grandeur of Varya. Usually Stina would be straight to the Karamzina, and ready and rearing to go, but for once.... he wasn't quite feeling the need to be as rigid and on time. There was a pang in his heart, a sadness about leaving behind the glories of the homeland. The fearless beauty of civilization in the heart of this world of dead ice.

A memento, he decided. He needed to find something to remember this place by. Shopping for himself was not something Stina had ever done. On his few trips home, his mother or father inevitably found some sort of reason to drag him to some high-class tailor or cobbler or something, even if he insisted that the activity wasn't necessary. It was always an uncomfortable adventure, not in the least due to the long, awkward pauses, whichever parent brought him along simultaneously expecting him to lead the conversation, and getting frustrated at him every time he stuttered. For all their talking up of his inquisitorial school, they sure weren't very quick to accept the damage he had to take to be ready to protect Varya's great mission.

He shook his head. Too much of a focus on the past. He didn't have to get clothing anyway, he thought, as he unbuttoned his coat. heir official garb was good anyway. He wandered his way into a market square, perusing the area, looking for anything of particular interest. Stall after stall, most of them selling basic provisions. He picked up a small block of cheese along the way. The woman selling it seemed nice.

He came to the center of the square, passing by a small shop, the entrance to it squeezed between two market stalls. out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse, the first something to drive his interest. he turned to look more closely. In the window of the little shop, a bunch of rings, assumingly a jeweler's store. the one that had caught his eye was a small wooden band, the wood only covering the top and bottom forth of the ring. connecting the two wooden half-circles was a strange substance - colored resin, something with which he was not familiar - white and blue, capturing perfectly the look of ice. He walked inside, stooping to make it through the doorframe, to take a closer look.

"an aether ring. That's what that is." a man, wrinkled, hunched, and at least two feet shorter than Stina came up beside him. "Or at least that's what I was told when I bought it meself. Woman came through, seemed a bit out of sorts. Said her husband had died, was looking for ways to keep the kids fed, was selling off some of his old stuff. She said he wore it in his years in the army, was supposed to enhance his inner aether. 'Course, he wasn't an inquisitor or anything like you are, sir, so I personally doubt he would have noticed the difference if it did help." Stina smiled at the respect the old man gave him. The shop owner reached out to Stina's hand, and he obliged, giving over the ring. "It is quite beautiful, is it not?" he said, and both silently contemplated the object for a few seconds.

"'Course now I work in metals, got plenty of rings in here where I can tell you just how I put 'em together. That's a good thing, ya know, since I gotta teach my grandson how to do this before I go on to whatever's next. His pa ain't no good, but he's a good kid, respects his elders, and his betters." He pauses for a moment, regathering his train of thought. "oh yes. I can tell you all the ways someone can put together a ring outta metal, but wood? first ya gotta find that stuff, and then he's added in this blue stuff in between. Iffn I wasn't a ringmaker meself I could see how someone would think it magic. At any rate, that's why it's more expensive than the others. Kinda partial to it meself, too," he said, handing the ring back.

Stina smiled. "I leave soon, a-a-a-and it may be a long time before I return. I.....I will remember you, and I wiiiiiiill remember the glory of Varya's cities, and the strange beauties you can find even in-in their smallest corners." He pulled out his coin purse, payed, and took the ring for himself. "May......y-... you bask in Varya's hunger" he said as he left. Surprisingly, it managed to fit his pinky perfectly - he realized after the fact that he hadn't even bothered to try it on, something he really should have done considering how much larger his hands were than the average individual. He smiled. He didn't feel any changes to his aether, but he did feel his purpose returning, and he strode confidently to The Forge.

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update. Chapter 1 opening post is being worked on. Things are moving a bit slow right now, since a lot of us are collaborating on character dialogue. Shouldn't be that much longer though. :)

@Lovejoy

I'm actually posting things in the collab now so stuff should move faster :P

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

@The Angry Goat Hey dude. Would you be up for a collab post with myself, shy, and Myst? We could use discord or gdocs. It'd probably work better for a three-way conversation between our characters. Let me know!

@Lovejoy

discord would probably work better for me

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

Oh I've read the entire thing, I've just not read it with retention of information in mind. I don't really think any of it is relevant to my character though, which is the point I was trying to make, so it's fine if I go in blind