YohhananArbuckle
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Woo! We are not out of the woods but I have a moment to myself for the first time since Tuesday. I will be catching up on the thread and writing my character and reviewing the wonderful Callista write up.
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Let's see... for the evil twin, this druner (wow I have to give him an alien-y name already) may either do some insurance work for him, buy products off him for convenience/security or just rub elbows with him whenever they move in the same circles. I doubt he'd disapprove much of all the rumours/facts of how Octavius got that position.
On the other hand, his two co-workers do want him dead, and in a moment of bold recklessness might contact a contract killer to do it (though to be honest they're unreliable and would probably fold on the payment, or regret it when they realise they might not be able to get to his savings once he's dead).
(Let me know if I'm misinterpreting either of them or if their planned outlines have changed since :v)
Either way, he's got money squirrelled away that would certainly be useful for somebody. I can't see him being thrilled about other Dreamers knowing that he's one, though, so he wouldn't go seeking them out and would definitely be uncomfortable if meeting one.
YohhananArbuckle Is it fine if I omit some things in history? Like an important person or something, nothing that would affect other people.
Alright, I've gotten a bit lazy and I think six pages is enough for feedback before I get back to adding more or fixing whatever should be fixed. I made a doc for the CS and six pages is a little much to be posted directly anyway, so down below will be the link to the doc. You don't need an account to check it out, I'm pretty sure.
Callista
docs.google.com
Top line is that this is approved. The only direct suggestion I would make is to rewrite the Motivation section to provide a full recap and clear mission statement, since it'll be hanging out on the main thread front page without much color surrounding it. Just like "looking for my friend, who was kidnapped and brought to PG with me a long time ago." Take it or leave it though.
I like how ethereal and graceful the picture is and how... not those things Callista is.
Regarding the stinging venom, I think an aggressive or security conscious Gelari could use the miracles of science to outfit themselves with some weapons grade toxins, if they felt the urge. I am imagining systems that inject nanobot payloads or artificially efficient venoms designed to defeat countermeasures. Maybe the Gelari spend less time cooking up stuff like this than everybody else. If they're generally nice maybe they'd try to think of a way to make the stinging... good? Or therapeutic? That could certainly be sold to bizarre rich people as An Experience.
Is Callista in some sense a human child inside her dream? Does she realize that?
Since you are based out of a bad part of PG and have been looking for a missing person for some time, I think it's plausible that the Association has realized you might have a lead on the Dream Cult (I added a section about Dream Cults to the end of the lore page) it is trying to stamp out in the area. Maybe your missing friend has in some way run afoul of them? You could demand quid pro quo assistance from Olly when he comes knocking for intel, and he'd probably just go with it instead of raising a big authoritarian stink as long as it wasn't a totally crazy ask.
Sure, that’s fine. Half the stuff I put in is somewhat unfinished or lazily written because, well, I’m lazy.
Oh yeah. She doesn’t particularly like it, but it also reminds her of her goal. It was supposed to be based off of her friend and her tales of the old Amazon (I’m just gonna assume it still existed then or something). So it makes sense that the only image she has of Micael was of a kid. That’s also where the Portuguese nicknames come from.
Cool stuff. I’ll check that out (again, because I forgot, it seems). Callista’d definitely have a finger in that. And yup, she may try to nicely convince Olly to assist her endeavours.
My new idea is to have him be a part of a Dreamer organization called the Silver Arrow, which was put together for the express purpose of stopping Dreamers from preying on people weaker than themselves. This means they have a strong dislike for Dream Cults, and that they tend to attract people who are bothered by other forms of injustice as well. Patronage by wealthy Dreamers (and secretly neighboring governments that would like to see the Association become a better international citizen) means that the organization is at least as powerful and well funded as some of the private corporate armies that exist in the Association.
That sounds sweet. Every character and/or group here is superdepressingnegative and then there’s Olly and his organization. Maybe Callista can finally be less of an arse after all this.
How's everybody else's profiles coming along? I will try to get the introductory post for the main thread up this weekend.
Just finished working on mine and just posted it as well.
Hi, all! I've been reading along but not quite able to respond, work has been pretty crazy! Profile is coming along, hoping to get it posted by the end of next week (or get a basic skeleton version out sooner.)
Really enjoying everyone's profiles so far though, excited to get going!
I've posted my CS, but if there's anything off about it,there probably is, do tell me.
The only thing I'd think about is why somebody who has been missing for years might be related to a Dream Cult cropping up. There are a lot of reasons that that could be so - Olly will ask and we'll want Micael to have a clearly defined tie-in to everything. Unless it's meant to have a very sad ending he is hopefully neither running nor a member of the cult.
Oh yes. I wasn’t sure about what you wanted for the Dream Cult, in terms of what they do or their motivation or whatever, so I didn’t specify. That’s assuming they have a reason other than to collect followers... or maybe they’re just collecting followers.
If they’re just your average dream cult (is that even a thing), there’s only one reason Micael’d be there. As a cultist, willingly or unwillingly, I guess. Maybe she got nabbed by some gung-ho cultist trying to open her eyes to their uh object of worship and never went back because if she wasn’t a believer, she wasn’t allowed to leave? Er, or she could be related to a cultist and slipped in the cult to try and get them out? There few reasons why one would disappear for years, unless they were stuck in place they couldn’t leave or they couldn’t contact others in case of stuff.
I think I’ve used up my brain juice for this morning, so do you have any ideas?
She could also be smuggling goods to them as a means of surviving, or she could have been close with Polyocules. The (minor) spoiler is that he also seems to have gone kind of nuts along with his followers, so she'd find herself in a spot that was previously good turning quite bad. I haven't thought much about who exactly this cult leader was before he started the cult up, so if there's an interesting backstory that could be made there it would work.
I’ve thought about the smuggling or business relationship idea, but it doesn’t seem like that it wouldn’t be a good enough reason to stop contacting someone forever, specially since if they’re still interacting with the outside. I couldn’t think of anything for them to be unable to contact a friend who has no ties to anything significant at that point in time.
As for being close to the Dreamer... That’s some delicious angst you’re going for right there. But also, I’m too lazy to think up a relationship backstory. The CS has already used all my creative brainpower for this RP, so I think I’m just going to go with basic got roped in cult and oh look isn’t that crazy aunt May? Or something.
Hello, sorry. I've been a bit out of sorts lately and neglecting role plays because of it. I've got to drag myself out of this slump or I'll miss this thing which I'm definitely interested in.
But feel free to give a time limit, and if I don't get read up & submitted before then, clearly it is Not To Be. Or if things look bad I'll bow out and let you know.
Ideally I can get back to writing though, for this and others. Aaaaa.
Gotta read through the CSs as well to try and think of some appropriate (potential) ties for {{BUGMAN}}.
...Okay, so he does have a suitably insect-clicky alien-sounding name. The CS is partly done but that's from a while ago so it will need updating.
Blemmigan Welcome back! You have not missed the boat, I am like 60% of the way through the opening post and in a place where I'm excited to wrap things up and let folks start.
W/r/t your profile, I like all of it! I think as you fill it in it will be good to go. I am making Olly have a contact in the city who is an Arrow ally that is a fantastically wealthy ex-augmentation surgeon named Maria van Zijl. She would likely run in the 'right' circles to know your Druner, so that might be a good in for Olly and Vixkrik and Callista to wind up having the same or at least a similar bad time.
I think the Gloam is really cool, and there's a collective unconsciousness aspect to it that could be used to unravel one thread of what Dreaming actually is, if we ever get to the point where we're offering explanations of the 'truth' of the matter. Euler's dream makes him think that he is seeing an outcome in some vastly different universe, Vixkrik's dream implies something else. Varied and conflicting implications are a big part of what makes it all so hard to understand.
His jaw is disgusting but exactly what I was imagining, so that's perfect.
I'll have you know that he'sprobablyvery handsome by druner standards.
Whew! And excellent... not that I'm in any way a fan of making things as inconvenient for characters as possible (I lied smoothly). If she's wealthy then Vixkrik will definitely know of her at least, or have tried to drum up business with her. I'm also thinking that there won't be many (or any?) other druners in those kinds of circles (it's quite uncharacteristic for them), which would make him recognisable even to those who can't tell giant bug people apart. So potentially not good.
But yes! I have posted the completed CS finally, so let me know if anything doesn't sit right.
Also: the anonoki and hamaedron who co-own the business, I've not developed them at all (and the names I gave them were just to make things easier), unless I write more about them in an opening post to set the scene... but yeah, they'd be free-control NPCs if they ever were relevant. May as well get that stated!
Thank you! Yeah, my thoughts were that... the Gloam at least is very ambiguous and malleable, possibly more of a gateway than a Dream world in its own right. With "the backstage" as well, it seems not quite part of dreams or the waking world... which would fit with Vixkrik's doublethink-denial towards dreams, and may be what caused his dreams to be like that in the first place.
But yes, it's definitely open for... becoming something else or being used for anything, particularly if the presence of other, more powerful Dreamers can alter it in some way or use it for their own ends.
I'll have you know that he'sprobablyvery handsome by druner standards.
No issue with the posted profile, I am still working on the opening post and realizing that I have just gotten out of practice writing. I'll try to get something up soon.
I had the idea to have Dr. Van Zijl ask Olly to look into the murder of a friend who was a high end art dealer. Is that something your character or his bad coworkers might have been involved in? I think the idea is for Olly to start making inquiries that cause discomfort in Vix's social circle. That way all of our characters wind up crossing paths relatively soon. And poor Olly has to try and do two dangerous jobs at once.
I do like the idea of Vix trying to spy on Olly with the Gloam, but instead seeing his Avatar and them both being like ???. I might change up Olly's dream to make it have more pizzazz, not sure how yet. I figure it doesn't matter until he's on record slinging his powers.
Would Druner even have ideas about one another being handsome? It seems like it's probably not relevant if you're a species that doesn't have really have a concept of romantic relationships, because they serve no biological purpose.
Hope everybody had a good fourth of July! We made pizzas on the grill.