<Snipped quote by Legend Begins> Artorias: *the moment you persue this action,I let out a earth-shattering roar, and it seemingly brings magic runes on my sword to life, as a shield forms aorund me of magic just before the attack lands*
Inconclusive. *The blaster unfolds into a large mechanical hand, suspended in multiple disjoint components where joints would normally be by magical scripts written across their surface* Through endless strength by which you grip, this foe's defeat lies in your grasp. *As I speak, one line of magical script appears in the air behind and above my head, and the hands grasps onto your shield, squeezing with tremendous, magically enhanced force*
There's it reformatted. Given it's buried now, however, I have my doubts it'll matter much.
I'll give it a read and figure out where we can insert the char. Do you have any sort of preferred starting context, (e.g. if something relatively peaceful is a no-go, that would be handy to know).
Alright, there's my post made. Good Lord, that was a long one. Here's hoping it's good
Not sure if it's obvious what I meant by our posting style, but we do have a guide on the first page of the OOC. We play in first person limited, and it's geared toward a pretty interactive play style between characters (even NPCs of the same player).
Yeah, of course. If you meet him on the street, he's a fine guy. In addition, most of his soul-bound are good enough people, just ones with troubled souls, so they can be perfectly fine to interact with should he send them in his place.
Okay, awesome, that works for me. Let me ask the rest of the crew to confirm and figure out where we might be able to jump him in.
That's a fair concern. I try to get around that by the fact that he is naturally attracted to things happening (because he feeds on things happening), so he'd naturally tend to appear at scenes of violence, discord, etc.
Also, he's just pretty good at masking in general, and likes people enough to mask for them (because he likes being admired/liked)
So he'd be able to hold a conversation if people happen to be chilling between major events?
Name: “Mr. Lucy” Age: Unknown Sex: Fluid Species: “That’s not something you ask on the first date, honey.”
Physical Description: Mr. Lucy doesn’t have a preferred appearance. He wears the skin he feels like he (or she) should wear in the moment. That said, he’s long had a liking for the Earth formalwear of the 19th-21st centuries; $30,000 custom-tailored Armani suits, reflective aviator shades, and black silk gloves define his aesthetic. His vanity, too, ensures that whatever face he chooses to wear is one of peerless beauty, even if such an eye-catching appearance is not ideal for his purposes.
Abilities:
Shapeshifting - Mr. Lucy can shape his form as he wishes, customizing his appearance to enhance his looks or impersonate another person he’s seen. He’s also capable of, to a limited degree, controlling the chemical and physical properties of his own body’s matter, allowing him to perform inhuman feats of strength and speed by manipulating his own momentum. He’s not infinitely strong, but his strength makes defeating most human enemies a trivial issue, and he can do things like hurling cars and even buildings as projectiles with ease.
Soul-Binding - Mr. Lucy can touch a recently-deceased corpse and bind the soul back into it, resurrecting the person and gaining control over their soul in the process. Once a person has been soul-bound, he is able to modify their memories to any extent, see through their eyes, and even possess their bodies for a short time, but he cannot modify their personalities. This makes selecting the right person to bind (often requiring him to kill them first) very important. Much like Mr. Lucy himself, soul-bound thralls cannot permanently die; they reform after some time in Lucy’s “mausoleum” when killed (which happens quite often).
Souls that are more at peace with the world and themselves are able to slip from Lucy’s grasp, and so Lucy’s thralls tend to be... troubled, to say the least.
The Mausoleum - A pocket dimension that Mr. Lucy has access to. This seemingly-infinite crypt-like structure contains the unconscious bodies of the soul-bound, each contained in a burial chamber matching their personality. Lucy is capable of “deploying” the soul-bound from the Mausoleum at will into other dimensions for his own purposes.
Illusions - Mr. Lucy is capable of creating extremely elaborate psychic illusions that can fool even the most trained eyes. Like faerie fire, the illusion is so convincing that someone who “dies” in the illusion can easily die in real life if they don’t realize it’s fake. Only truesight, or some other power that bypasses illusions altogether or allows a person to naturally tell them apart from reality, can defeat them.
Enchantment - Lucy possesses a singing voice like the sirens of old. By projecting his song into someone’s mind, he can enchant them. A song of love leaves them a helpless devotee. A song of rage inspires violent fantasies and drives them to kill his enemies. A song of rest stops their heart altogether. By singing well enough, and projecting the song far enough, he can snuff out a whole world, an act which he has done before.
Chaos Magick - Lucy, as a being of concepts, is capable of interfacing with concepts to produce magic. By using the discipline mortals call chaos magick (a real thing; look it up), Lucy produces effects through an eclectic mix of sympathetic magic, ritual, and spirit-calling. Such magic is never overt; he can’t throw a fireball, but he can certainly hex you so that you get struck by a car the next time you go on a walk.
Movement Unimpeded - Mr. Lucy is capable of moving between all but the hardest dimensional barriers unimpeded, and moving through realspace at superluminal speed by folding space around him. By dipping into the subspatial aether and moving faster than light before reappearing, he can appear to teleport, and by using the Mausoleum as an anchor point, he can jump between dimensions.
Resurrective Immortality - Lucy doesn’t die, not permanently. His physical body represents only a tiny part of his true being, and so, if something “kills” him, it’s not too difficult for him to recreate his matter and pop back into existence in the Mausoleum. That said, there’s nothing he fears more than banishment; he’s apparently been banished from reality altogether at least once, and the experience did not have a positive impact on his demeanor once he managed to escape.
Weaknesses:
Wards - Certain symbols of supernatural protection are capable of stopping Lucy. He cannot enter a room whose doors have all been marked with a pentacle, or cross a line or circle of salt. Holy symbols, like crucifixes or the Star of David, don’t harm him but do prevent him from touching or performing magic upon someone wearing them, provided the symbol is worn with sincere belief in whatever power it represents. However, erase the pentacle, break the line of salt, or take off the symbol, even for a moment, and he has his in. This is why he uses soul-bound thralls; they can ignore the obstacles that restrict him.
Word-Bound - Lucy is incapable of going back on his word. A promise made is a promise kept, and a debt is always repaid; there is no other option.
Hospitality - Lucy cannot enter any dwelling or residence unless someone inside invites him in. Again, this is why he uses the soul-bound.
Mirrors - Lucy HATES being shown his own reflection; as vain as he is, he sees his own reflection as intolerably ugly and considers someone showing it to him as a personal attack. It’s the easiest way to send him flying into a rage.
Thanks for submitting! The one area we ought to hash out is that chaotic-aligned characters (especially those that drift to the evil side) are hard to keep on screen since we generally follow neutral to good aligned characters. So the question would be whether he'd have the self control to not drive away the crew the camera is following. After all, no fun in RPing solo =P
I was probably not old enough to be here when I first appeared, lmao; that's why I just sorta ghosted the whole forum after a little bit.
But yeah, that was an entire segment of my life went by, and now I'm in college. It's crazy. Yeah, I think I'll bring in the one character I have that actually justifies the existence of a roster of other characters who just happen to be wherever they need to be (they're bound to him and under his control, a la the G-Man from Half-Life).
Hey, wild to see you again after all these years! Yeah, you're welcome back. If you don't mind, just refresh us on who you want to throw in, their motivations/powers/backstory, and we'll figure out how to rope them in.
Artorias: * my body bends unatturally, grinding my sword against yours until I swing it down behind me, using the momentum to swing it upward towards your chin. The amarnthine my body and the balde are composed of are uniquely whole. Preventing it from being separated, but the maranthine particles in the air are repelled from one another*
Experiment two. *The blade slams down to vault me high above you, and a complex mechanical blaster emerges from my back, firing a large spell at your body and sword respectively, causing them to repel one another*
Artorias: *grumbles a low, almost animalistic growl, raising my sword into the air, as amaranthine energy consumes all available loose neergy in the battlefield, converting it into amaranthine energy, just before he sends it crashibg down atop you*
*The base of the inverted pyramid twists and injects new potency into the spell, which branches out through your body and continually repels amaranthine from amaranthine whenever it becomes tangible; above me, a sleek mechanical sword charged with the same spell emerges from my coat, connected to an auxiliary arm, and it meets your own sword swing mid-air*
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