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The Trees Listen. (Stranded in a strange world of dreams, dark forests and magic, will you escape alive?)

Alright, background and appearance have been added, as well as links to the songs all of her abilities are named after, because of course they are (except for her Memento ability). Hopefully this gets off the ground soon, it seems really fun!

The Trees Listen. (Stranded in a strange world of dreams, dark forests and magic, will you escape alive?)

Thanks so much! :D I’ll add the appearance and background sections when I get off work... in four hours. :/ And no references, unless I read it a while ago and forgot about it, and this is my subconscious’ way of reminding me of it. What webcomic is it, if I may ask?

...Is it Homestuck? It’s Homestuck isn’t it.

The Trees Listen. (Stranded in a strange world of dreams, dark forests and magic, will you escape alive?)

Well, this looks interesting! Here's my sheet, lemme know if I need to fix anything. Also, I noticed there's no appearance or background field. Should I just add those in somewhere or was that intentional?

Esther

Esther al-Mubarak

Appearance:

Esther is about 5’ 5” and 120 lbs, making her fairly skinny. This is because she has the metabolism of three teenagers in one. Her hijab is on pretty much 24/7, and Esther often compliments it with numerous t-shirts (including, infamously, this gem) and a pair of jeans.

Nicknames: Est (mostly used by family; Esther doesn't much like nicknames, but tolerates this one.)

Race: Human.

Gender: Female.

Sexuality: Lesbian.

Personality: Esther, at first glance, is impish, sarcastic, lazy, and prone to sudden bouts of shouting. She’s blunt, swears like a sailor, and has no patience whatsoever for idiots. However, underneath her shell of anger and curse words, Esther has a heart of gold; she’s surprisingly compassionate, friendly, and intensely loyal. She honestly enjoys laughing and making others laugh, and as it turns out, sarcasm and good timing make for a great combination in that department. Esther is also very independent, always attempting to do things on her own before asking a friend for help. Although, while Esther is generally a good person, that doesn’t mean she’s unopposed to doing things the... less than legal way. As long as nobody gets seriously hurt, anyway.
Despite outwards appearances, Esther is actually rather introverted, preferring to spend the majority of her time browsing Reddit or making music in her room. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Esther’s identity (as a Muslim, a woman, and a lesbian) is very important to her, and woe betide the person who disparages her for being who she is.

Background: Esther, and her mother, are originally from Iraq, but they emigrated to the U.S. when Esther was 4. Her father was apparently an American soldier, but any more than that her mother won’t say. The two of them ended up living in upstate New York, in a suburb of Buffalo. Growing up with only one parent is difficult enough, but when you’re a fairly poor Muslim family to boot? It gets pretty tough.
Esther started working part-time pretty much as soon as she was able, to supplement her mother’s work as a manager at Walmart. Esther’s first job was mowing lawns for people in an upscale neighborhood a few blocks over, at 12, but once she turned 14 she got a proper job at a McDonald’s. And of course, in addition to money troubles, there was the usual Islamophobia, sexism, and so forth. Also the time Esther got fired for getting caught trying to pickpocket her supervisor (and the few times she wasn’t caught). And the time Esther mugged a businessman. (She didn’t try to injure him with the knife, but it turns out getting nicked slightly is a great motivator.) And… well, there was a lot of petty crime that happened. Her mother was concerned, of course, but decided not to question the sudden influxes of money. They didn’t happen often enough to get Esther suspected of anything much, officially.
In terms of education, Esther’s a pretty bright kid, even skipping 5th grade. Now that she’s in college (on a merit scholarship, mostly), Esther’s mother wants her to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or anything really, as long as it makes a decent amount of money. Esther, however, has other plans: she wants to be a musician. She’s always loved music; she took music theory as an elective every year in high school, she learned how to play the piano, and you’d be hard-pressed to find her without at least one earbud in. Esther’s already making her own music, combining orchestral elements with drum and bass, with a bit of jazz sprinkled on the top. She plans to release her first album on bandcamp, under the name “tokidoki” (sometimes), in the near future.

Text Color: "I... cannot... fucking believe you just did that! Of all the monumentally headassed things you've ever done, this has got to take the fuckin' cake. If we get out of this alive, I am going to steal your teeth, you dumb fuck."

Abilities: Fairly accomplished piano player. Fluent in Arabic. Black belt in Tae Kwon Do (tends to default to instinctual flailing in fights though). Good at coming up with creative threats and insults. Decent thief. Not an awful cook.

Items: An olive green hijab (her favorite), her phone (at 84% battery, no reception), a pink Nintendo DS Lite (dead, with no games), and her Memento.

Memento: A single white wooden piano key, made into a necklace by way of boring a hole through one end and looping a chain through it. It's from Esther's first piano, which was so old that it eventually just fell apart.

Memento Theme: Music/Emotion (the two are inextricably related for Esther; she can't have one without the other).

Class One: Mage.

Unique Class: Bard of the Heart. Music and sound-based spells, leaning towards emotion-affecting and offensive abilities.

Abilities:

• Parodia Sonatina: Esther creates an extremely loud burst of sound, inflicting INT+1 damage to everything in its (small-ish) radius.
• Voxez: Causes nearby enemies to hear a chorus of whispering voices, instilling bone-chilling fear in them for, at minimum, 30 seconds. Esther can make it last longer, but she must concentrate on the spell if she does, and cannot cast another spell during that time.
• Floor of Lava: Esther designates an area to become extremely hot, marked by the ground beginning to glow a cherry red. Anyone who remains there takes INT/2 damage every few seconds. The spell fades after a minute or so.
• Memento Ability: Soul Blast. When Esther feels a particularly strong emotion, her Memento will activate an appropriate effect, according to the emotion. The effects are random each time, but tend to stay "in-theme", so to speak; things like anger and fear generally provide offensive effects, while happiness and determination provide buffs. They are also accompanied by a burst of music, always a song that Esther associates with said emotion, emanating from the Memento. While Esther can't control what effect is used, she can, with concentration, cause Soul Blast to trigger when she chooses.

---STATS---

HP: 11
STR: 8
DEX: 10
INT: 13
WIS: 9
DEF: 6
# of Abilities: 4 (counting Soul Blast).

Pariah Online | Season One

I tell ya, waking up to 12 new posts in here was a wild feeling.

Pariah Online | Season One

For us? Definitely.

Pariah Online | Season One

Hey, you're the one who made the Discord server :p

Pariah Online | Season One

we 👏 out 👏 here 👏

Pariah Online | Season One

T i f e r e t

• Tʜᴇ Dᴜɴɢᴇᴏɴ •

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Tiferet kept up her playing as best as she could, concentrating on her fiddle while also keeping an eye out for any slimes she could take potshots at. It was a little awkward to aim at them, considering that the projectile <Irondust> spawned came out of the end pin, near her chin, but she managed. She could, in theory, just stop playing and use her fiddle as a sort of magical machine gun - she'd done it before, mostly when adventuring solo - but in order for <Kronos> to last longer after she stopped playing, she needed to play the whole song, without stopping. Annoying, maybe, but the party's current setup was more than enough protection.

Speaking of, Tif realized that her song was almost over. As she ran through the last few notes, she quickly considered what buff to provide next. <Hestia>? Nah, Landon and Red have the whole fire thing covered... <Ineffabilis> and <Fallen Angel> are both way too powerful to use right now, <Midnight> only works in moonlight, <Imprinting> is pretty much useless here, and <Decay> is way too difficult for me to do on the fly like this. Besides, that one's kinda fucked up, even for me. What to pick, then...?

Fortunately, Graves solved her dilemma right as the last note sang out.

"Pipsqueak, flower boy!" Graves yelled out the names of the other melee fighters, hoping to draw their attention to him. "You think we can carve a path toward the front exit?!"

@Superboy

Tiferet's face split into a wide, giddy, and (it must be said) skeletal grin. She knew exactly what to do here.

"Hey, Graves!" Before the beefy tank could respond, Tiferet's magically enhanced voice rang out through the crypt, accompanied by the sounds of clapping, background singers, and a full swing band, all seemingly emanating from Tif herself.

You remind me of a man! (What man?)
Oh, the man with the power! (What power?)
Oh, the power of voodoo! (Who do?)
Oh, you do, you do! (You what?)

As she sang, the effect of her spell, <Man With The Hex>, filled Graves with a decidedly strange feeling. It felt kinda like eating a Red Hot, or a similar spicy candy, but with his entire body. With that feeling, though, came a feeling of incredible strength, a surge of energy, and a slightly stronger urge to do just what he had said earlier; cut a path through the flood of slimes, making for the front exit as quickly as possible.

Back behind him, Tiferet's grin remained unchanged. Partly because this song was always fun to perform, and partly because she liked pulling one over on Graves. <Man With The Hex> allowed the caster to grant a target greatly enhanced strength and speed, as Graves had just found out. But, as the voodoo line implied, it also allowed them to plant suggestions in the target's head. She was mostly casting it for the buff, of course, and wasn't about to do anything like make Graves turn on the party - that'd be way more harmful than what she preferred, which would be to take out all of these damn slimes, then make him do something mildly embarrassing later. Shame it couldn't target more than one person at a time, pranking three people at once would've been awesome. Ah well. That was a problem for another time, when they weren't in the middle of a homicidal dungeon.

The Void Lurkers

Dammit.

The Void Lurkers

Just to check, is this still a thing? I just wanna make sure, since I think the Discord server was deleted and nobody's posted in 8 days.