Discontent

Pages of Books - Life in a Library

Appearance: Shawn generally gives the impression that appearance is the last thing on his mind. His chestnut brown hair is grown out long past his neck, which he keep tied up in a ponytail with his hair pushed back from his forehead. He has a rather poorly shaven beard as well, with random patches of his chin merely showing signs of stubble while others have obviously just been outright forgotten. His has a triangular face with a wide forehead and a pointed chin, with gray-blue eyes that often seem to stare and wonder around room, with straight eyebrows, and always seems to have a slightly irritated frown. Stands up tilted and rather slouched at around 6 foot tall, with a lean, athletic and physically fit body. His clothes are often messy, usually just throwing on the first thing he pulls out from his closet.

Name: Shawn Burnham
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Orientation: Asexual
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Construction worker
Favourite Books: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Personality: Shawn tries to be friendly and polite to people, but due to his deep-seated rage issues, this often proves difficult. He has always had a hair-trigger temper that he never, not once in his life, learned to control. This was always more out of a genuine lack of knowledge on proper social skills, rather than out of maliciousness and hatred. He just never quite understood subtle social queues or what is considered acceptable behaviour to other people, meaning that he can often be blissfully unaware of the nature of his action. When not factoring in his temper, Shawn just proves to be incredibly awkward, lonely, insecure, childish, and one big barrel of self-loathing, and a lot of his general rudeness isn't because he's an intentional jerk, but because he never talked to enough people to learn basic social etiquette

Brief Bio: Shawn's upbringing and home life was positively idyllic -- he grew up in a middle class family in a reasonably sized two-story house in a relatively safe neighbourhood, his parents were more-or-less loving and doting people, and he went to wealthy private school where bullying was rarely a problem. All in all, there was no trauma or abuse that could possibly explain his behaviour -- yet to him, that just makes his rage issues more troubling for him because he's convinced that he has no-one else to blame but himself. In school, he always instantly shut down any prospect of friendship by accidentally saying or doing say something abrasive or rude, leading to constant isolation. At his younger age, he never quite understood why no-one liked him, as nobody ever actually pointed out his anger until his teenage years, and thus he never tried to adjust his behaviour, always thinking that it was somehow other people's fault. When he actually realized what was wrong in his teenage years, he was far too entrenched in how he acted to actually properly change anything -- it was all unconscious behaviour that he was only barely aware of. After he left home he found that he could never really get any job where he had to work with many people, and after a while searching, settled on being a construction worker, as he was always quite physically fit. He stills fails to make any real friendships and relationships, despite constant attempts, and often goes to the library after or in-between work.

Other: I love books, y'know. (I think the other CSes have... forgotten something, wouldn't you think?)

Books

Tentatively giving interest. I'll definitely check it out when you get the OOC up, it's just that this doesn't give a whole lot to go off of.

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Been busy, the metaphorical shit temporarily hit the proverbial fan. Got a post up. Sorry for the wait. I'm fairly sure it won't be a problem for at least a while.

Okay, let's try to get this back on track. Witty, Dawn -- your turn.

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Penny noticed the weapon fairly quickly, but she had to restrain herself from leaping out of her skin at the roar in the distance. As she never quite understood the appeal of zoos or television documentaries, her knowledge of the the many noises that an animal could make was less than comprehensive. But even she could tell that there was something incredibly wrong with it. Repressing a cry of fear, she settled on internalised terror and quickly gathered the weapon and hung it over her shoulder, turning around to the opposite direction of the cry of whatever beast was nearby.

"Move," she said forcefully to the man, making it clear that he wouldn't have time for his own search. She didn't realise that he had already managed to find his weapon. Holding the recording to her ear, she listened carefully to what the person said. It made vague, useless allusions to the card she had been given, warned her against trusting anyone, recommend that she find a map, and that she should find a 'castle among the sands'. All in all, it raised more questions than it answered.

"W-what the hell was that?" a voice from the man nervously called out.

"Questions later. Quickly, n--" the hairs on the back of her neck stood straight up as another roar echoed out, this time much closer. She didn't want to find out what it is. No words had to be said. She bolted forward the very second the roar rang out, and hoped that the psychotic that she had unfortunately found herself partnered with understood the concept of 'fight or flight'. Considering the dull thud footsteps of footsteps uneven with her own crunched from behind her, it seemed he did.

Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

Going to be busy this weekend. Completely.

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Hm? I'm perfectly fine. Sorry if it came off that way.

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Okay, I've talked to Beo, so let's do some explanation.

Having a different recording for every single person is a waste of time. If you note the recordings shown, they don't really give any clue as to what the cards do, it just makes incredibly, incredibly vague allusions to them. They all essentially give the same information. Posting a different recording for the second person in each area will be a pointless waste of time, and give out absolutely nothing new or interesting.
Thus, for the sake of not delaying this any longer, we have decided that everyone in the same zone has the exact same recording.

Now, let's move this onwards, shall we?

EDIT: I'll ask again to those who didn't respond to my earlier query -- anyone interested in controlling Thomas? If no-one agrees by tomorrow, then I'll just do it myself and get a post up then.

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Looking at everything, Beo, it seems like you just really need to post the other recordings before anyone else posts.

Don't be lazy, dear GM.

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Yeah, not wanting to control 3 characters is another one of my reasons.

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I'm sorry to hear that, Wayne. I hope you feel better soon.

As for playing Thomas, I don't really like the idea of two of the characters that I control being 'partners'. I think that's... really, really boring. I'd be roleplaying with myself. I've also never liked the idea of controlling another person's character.

I'll do it if I have to, but I'd like first ask if anyone else would be interested in controlling him.