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That sounds like an interesting character concept, there'd be a lot of ways to use his abilities and he'd definitely be a good way to bring the cast together like you said. My character would be interested in his abilities too, since he might be able to decipher answers that mine is looking for.

Though I have a question about the character template. I've been working on it, and I just now noticed at the bottom in the Possesions section that it says our characters are in an internment camp. I thought they hadn't been caught yet, is this a typo or am I misunderstanding it?
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That sounds like an interesting character concept, there'd be a lot of ways to use his abilities and he'd definitely be a good way to bring the cast together like you said. My character would be interested in his abilities too, since he might be able to decipher answers that mine is looking for.

Though I have a question about the character template. I've been working on it, and I just now noticed at the bottom in the Possesions section that it says our characters are in an internment camp. I thought they hadn't been caught yet, is this a typo or am I misunderstanding it?


Sorry, it's a typo. I'll fix.
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Sorry, it's a typo. I'll fix.


Ah ok, thanks for letting me know.
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Is this still alive and kicking?

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Yes. I had a massive migraine yesterday, but I'm back today and we've been hammering out details in the Discord.
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I am still working on my character. I was just busy with other roleplays that I am in.
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Name: Fox Delta
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Physical Description:
Copper hair and pale skin, he is a ginger after all.
Brown eyes, nothing too crazy.
Short for his age - 5'7"
Always has a hoodie of some sort on, usually a shade of blue.

Skillset:
Normal Talents -
Strategizing (loves strategy games, got pretty good at them)
Hiding (He is a little ball of anxiety so hiding is something he does often)
Running (He ran track for a few years)
Good liar (Honesty isn't the best policy)

Magic Talents -
Telekinesis (Common, I know)

Misc. Talents -
Fast learner (if that counts towards anything)

History:
Fox had a fear of pretty much anything due to his abusive upbringing, let's just say his father wasn't a very kind man. One particularly terrible day at his home, his father had come through the door in one of his infamous rages. He blamed Delta for being the reason he was fired. A silly excuse, but his father was one to put his problems on the nearest person. His father through a book at Fox, not the worst thing, but that fact that was it was a hardback didn't make it a good thing either. Scared out of his mind, he froze, eyes screwed shut. He managed to move the book slightly to the left, sending it crashing through a lamp instead of his face. His father blamed him for that too, even though Fox immediately passed out afterwards.
Fox also had what seemed like an affinity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He one day decided to talk an alternate route to school and ended up being arrested for a murderer. He was later released since they ended up catching the real culprit, but that's what he gets for walking under a bridge, past a corpse one day. It's still on his record though, they forgot to erase the fact he was wrongfully accused of murder, so he won't be getting a high-end job anytime soon.

Psychological Profile:
No one is trustworthy. Eventually, everyone will betray you, even the ones you thought loved you. Fox is extremely skittish, always expecting someone to hit him even though he hasn't seen his dad in over about a year. He was already a little paranoid, his father just made it worse. He would suddenly explode over every little thing, whether it was a pea rolling off his plate or Delta's grade dropping by 5%. Due to his love of strategy games, when he's not freaking out he usually considers everything to be one big game of chess. People are pawns, and he's stuck front and center in the battlefield. He'd rather be in the back, contemplating the next move, than be stuck up front telling people what to do or acting out the plans.

Possessions:
The first book he bent to his will, "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande.
A small rib bone from a fox. His mother gave it to him for luck, he wears it on a chain.
A small backpack full of duct tape. Another thing his mother told him that he took to heart, duct tape is good for everything.
His favorite dark blue hoodie, he's always wearing it. Emotional attachment and whatnot.

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So far so good, though on the balance of 'developed powers' versus 'undeveloped powers' I feel like people should be aware that if they are taking innate powers now, they are probably locking themselves down a bit. I want to figure out how to strike a balance. I also think that it's not a bad idea to have characters that have physical feature alterations to contend with in some way, things that give them away.

This is a setting about tension, and I think having characters that are on the run and confused is a very good start.
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Is my character alright?
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So far so good, though on the balance of 'developed powers' versus 'undeveloped powers' I feel like people should be aware that if they are taking innate powers now, they are probably locking themselves down a bit. I want to figure out how to strike a balance. I also think that it's not a bad idea to have characters that have physical feature alterations to contend with in some way, things that give them away.

This is a setting about tension, and I think having characters that are on the run and confused is a very good start.


I did originally have more physical alterations for Jay, but I wasn't too sure about them and figured it was just best to post the base character first so that it'd be easier to change things if needed.

I was going to give her gray/white hair as a sort of way to signify that the life was drained out of her, but I felt like it might be too anime-ish and held back on it. Also, I should say now that the inspiration for her is actually a Pokemon, Shedinja. So because of that I was going to also give her a hole in the back of her head, but I was worried that might be too much of a blatant rip off. What's your opinion on these?
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I did originally have more physical alterations for Jay, but I wasn't too sure about them and figured it was just best to post the base character first so that it'd be easier to change things if needed.

I was going to give her gray/white hair as a sort of way to signify that the life was drained out of her, but I felt like it might be too anime-ish and held back on it. Also, I should say now that the inspiration for her is actually a Pokemon, Shedinja. So because of that I was going to also give her a hole in the back of her head, but I was worried that might be too much of a blatant rip off. What's your opinion on these?


Well, what we're shooting for is a relationship to actual mythology and folklore here. I mean, her original spirit went somewhere (coma, perhaps?) and something else took over. That's all cool. I was just thinking, what if it was a dead person's spirit that was floating in limbo and found its way in there? I mean, whole different set of memories in someone else's brain, it's bound to be hard to remember much when the software and the hardware are not compatible, right?

Maybe a long-dead spirit, totally bewildered by the current world and, sure, experiencing amnesia. Conveniently, knows snippets of an ancient Native American language?
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Well, what we're shooting for is a relationship to actual mythology and folklore here. I mean, her original spirit went somewhere (coma, perhaps?) and something else took over. That's all cool. I was just thinking, what if it was a dead person's spirit that was floating in limbo and found its way in there? I mean, whole different set of memories in someone else's brain, it's bound to be hard to remember much when the software and the hardware are not compatible, right?

Maybe a long-dead spirit, totally bewildered by the current world and, sure, experiencing amnesia. Conveniently, knows snippets of an ancient Native American language?


What I was going for was more of a comparison of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, so the original person's spirit didn't leave the body, they literally just evolved and broke out of her old body and left it behind as a shell. With what I had in mind, there isn't a new spirit in the shell either. She isn't alive in any way, if anything she could probably be best described as an empty puppet reanimated through magic. The general idea is that she shouldn't be up and walking around, but the whole uprising of magic was able to effect even a discarded shell and give it a consciousness.
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What I was going for was more of a comparison of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, so the original person's spirit didn't leave the body, they literally just evolved and broke out of her old body and left it behind as a shell. With what I had in mind, there isn't a new spirit in the shell either. She isn't alive in any way, if anything she could probably be best described as an empty puppet reanimated through magic. The general idea is that she shouldn't be up and walking around, but the whole uprising of magic was able to effect even a discarded shell and give it a consciousness.


Sure, I just think that a spirit going in where the soul was would make an interesting plot twist. It was a suggested modification and it could have significant plot ramifications depending on what sort of spirit is. Who or what that spirit is would play a huge role in the unfolding plot.
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Sure, I just think that a spirit going in where the soul was would make an interesting plot twist. It was a suggested modification and it could have significant plot ramifications depending on what sort of spirit is. Who or what that spirit is would play a huge role in the unfolding plot.


Eh, I'd rather do that with a different/new character if I was going to do that, it just feels like a huge concept changer when I think about it. Which, I might possibly do. I was thinking of making a second character a few days ago but I wasn't particularly sure what kind of character to go for, but your idea is giving me some inspiration. If you're allowing multiple characters that is.
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I'm okay with multiple characters, though I think we should make primary characters and side characters, which would include antagonists and so forth. We might need to start a Trello or similar collaborative bulletin board to keep track of these efforts, however.
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The guild is currently experiencing instability. If we are continuing this RP, we may have to make sure we can run it even if this place goes down temporarily. Best bet is to use Discord to coordinate.
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Hello! Is this still accepting? I seems like a really interesting concept, and I have an idea for a character that could go either way, and end up as either a staunch ally of the protagonists, or an antagonist in and of himself.
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Hello! Is this still accepting? I seems like a really interesting concept, and I have an idea for a character that could go either way, and end up as either a staunch ally of the protagonists, or an antagonist in and of himself.
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Yeah, I'm okay with more people. We haven't gotten that far on things, we're still putting together characters, at a sort of leisurely pace.
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Yeah, I'm okay with more people. We haven't gotten that far on things, we're still putting together characters, at a sort of leisurely pace.


Cool. You mind if I hop into your discord?
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