OOC Discussion

[Dusky]

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TAKE MY LOVE


TAKE IT

 

[Bag o Fruit]

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What just happ'nd?

 

[Aldur]

@welian Aldur is punking me again!

I didn't do anything, punk!

 

[Gus]

Managed to do a thing.

 

[Gus]

Checkmate?

 

[Aldur]

Damn it!

 

[welian]

I'd like to give @ViAdvena a big round of applause for being the first player to suggest a writing prompt on the blog!

 

[Aldur]

Are you at liberty to say what it was?

 

[welian]

Are you at liberty to say what it was?

No, but she is. And it's a pretty good idea! A lot better than the silly things I favor. So make sure you also consider submitting suggestions.

 

[Aldur]

No, but she is. And it's a pretty good idea! A lot better than the silly things I favor. So make sure you also consider submitting suggestions.

There. I am a such a bad person.

 

[welian]

In other news, I've turned submissions on for the Tumblr blog. If it works properly, then anyone following the Tumblr (or anyone with a link to it) should be able to submit their writing prompt responses there. Unfortunately, although I've figure out how to publish Wordpress posts to Tumblr automatically, I've not yet figured out how to do it in reverse. Perhaps one of you knows how?

 

[Aldur]

I found a thing that I might use for a future robot character.


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[welian]

@Captain Hesperus

 

[Gus]

<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2016_07/Lars.jpg.3c6f6fbb7e06b25ad71cbea1b6144126.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="142175" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2016_07/Lars.jpg.3c6f6fbb7e06b25ad71cbea1b6144126.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> So several people have reached out about Lucas, and I appreciate very much the reactions to that post. It was hard to write, because he was my first character here, and I originally created the concept way back in college, so I really had a soft spot for him. I am touched that others did too.


That said, if I could get some feedback on this new CS, I would appreciate it very much. This is my third draft after some feedback from Swoob and Frixz. Lars won't be joining until August, but I want to get my ducks in a row sooner than later. Let me know what you think!

Magnusson, L

• Heroism
• Statistics

• Aspect	Scale
  COUR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	09
  ALTR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02
  ORDR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	07
  KIND	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	03
  PRCT	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	09
  DIPL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	06

• Aspect	Scale
  HLTH	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02
  STRN	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02
  DEFN	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02
  AGLT	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	03
  INTL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	04
  WILL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	04

• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers

• Full Name
  
  Lars Magnusson
  
  Nicknames
  
  Larry
  
  Codename
  
  Magus
  
  Gender
  
  Male
  
  Age
  
  26
  
  Rank
  
  C
  
  Limiter
  
  None
  
  Role
  
  Professional entertainer, freelance image consultant.
  
  
• Race
  
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  
  Blond
  
  Eyes
  
  Blue-violet and Amber-pink (Heterocromia iridis)
  
  Height
  
  6' 3"
  
  Figure
  
  Rail thin, almost gaunt (145 pounds)
  
  Notes
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Affable:
  
  
  Easy going and fun to talk to is the first impression most people take away from meeting Lars. He is inveterate storyteller, as well as a gifted showman with a natural sense of how to entertain and amuse. He has a flair for the theatrical especially comedy. He tends to become especially voluble when he has had a few drinks, but rarely imbibes as his powers require concentration to work properly.
  
  
  Mischievous:
  
  
  Lars absolutely loves a good prank, and will go pretty far out of his way to set one up. He is a big fan of the long con, and has been known to play out his prank scenarios over weeks or even months.
  
  
  Inventive:
  
  
  While not much of an engineer himself, Lars has a penchant for finding new uses for existing technology. He mostly uses this for creating ever more elaborate illusions as well as pranks. Often both at the same time.
  
  
  Fourth wall breaker:
  
  
  He has learned to hide his true beliefs from those around him, finding the degree to which it wigs people out annoying, but deep down, he doesn't think reality is real. He is convinced that everything about the universe is just an excuse for storytelling in some higher dimension. It's not that he minds. He is happy to play along and add to the story. It's just that it is pretty hard to take things like death seriously if you think that pretty much everybody is just an NPC in an RPG. He has almost no fear of death, but at the same time virtually zero tolerance for discomfort. His sense of humor is... borderline. But the affable shell is what most people see. Only those who get inside his guard get to know this side of him. Or people he wants to wig out, just for giggles. For them he starts with little things, like letting them catch him talking to a blank wall. It is is favorite prank, the best of the long cons. It has ended at least three times with a trip to a mental hospital. Only one of those was for him.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Lars's super gene was caught relatively late in life, as rural Minnesota still has somewhat iffy screening. He was out of school and working his way through college as a professional stage magician when it was found out that all his tricks were real. He told the AEGIS agents that it had never occurred to him that stage magic was tricks, so he hadn't really thought twice about the fact that he was doing 'real' magic. He just imitated what he saw other magicians do. After earning his blue card, he did some good work on a couple dozen cases in the twin cities. Hardly national news level stuff, but made a name for himself in the midwest, as well as more than a few enemies in the drug trade. After getting burned out of his apartment building, he decided to disappear for a while, and ended up in Baltimore learning how to do magic “the hard way” from some old vaudevillians. In the process he got more and more interested in advanced technology and all the ways it could be used to trick the senses. By combining his peculiar powers with state of the art holography, he developed some very convincing VR set pieces as performance art. After taking that show on the road for a few years, he returned to Baltimore, prodigiously wealthy and looking for a new challenge. He was starting principle photography for a series of participatory VR 'movies' in the Owing Mills Mall when the terrorists attacked. How could he possibly resist poking that hornets nest? Their viral video was pathetic; no propagandist could ever hold a candle to a good showman. That his peculiar new form of performance art puts him squarely in the cross hairs of a deadly terrorist organization feels more invigorating than frightening. Good villains makes for a compelling stories, and the only way to die is to be boring...
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Tiberius Bartholomew Davidson & Terri-Beth Andrews
  
  
  Local Vaudevillians who taught him how to do magic 'the hard way' and introduced him to old school theatrical story telling techniques. They are an old and happily married couple of humbugs, who are as charming a pair of pickpockets and con artists as you could ever hope to meet.
  
  
  Skuld Blanco
  
  
  Minnesota twin cities retired police captain. Lars's second cousin once removed, the daugher of his great aunt Hilda. She was the one who gave Lars his first real shot at crime fighting, and while she frequently claims it was his antics that drove her to take early retirement, she will also grudgingly admit that he was very effective at clearing unsolved cases. She is a relatively rare merging of Latin and Norwegian culture, making her a dangerous person to cross. She has her father's quick temper, and her mother's capacity to carry a grudge. That she will still take Lars's calls is a real testament to his charms.
  
  
  All the dedicated little people without whose support this show would not have been possible
  
  
  A seemingly limitless string of friends, former lovers, and dupes, none of whom seem to ever mind being used as pawns in Lars's endless games. He loves them all, in his own way, but ultimately he is the star, and sometimes extras have to leave the show.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Small Scale Reality Edits
  
  
  When asked how his powers work, he will tell you with an utterly straight face that he is just exploring the limits of glitches in the matrix. When asked what the hell that means, he explains it is from an obscure movie from another universe, but that there were no sequels.
  
  
  In truth, nobody actually knows his real limits or even what the connection between his powers might be. AEGIS techs had difficulties calibrating their equipment to him, and in fact had troubles with it for weeks after his testing was done. It is thought that his particular power set may have deleterious effects on causality itself, making scientific equipment... twitchy. Eventually they settled on C rank based mostly on direct observation of his capabilities and limitations.
  
  
  • Illusions and minor reality bending:
    He is able to produce convincing illusory sensory affects, such as making things vanish or reappear out of thin air. Small things are easy, larger changes are a little harder. Also, since he has to fool each mind individually, large numbers of observers make it exponentially harder. His personal best is vanishing the 15th precinct building in front of about 40 cops and 50 or so other onlookers. He held the illusion for two minutes before putting it back at Captain Blanco's request. He can also make real changes to the physical world if he has enough time to mentally prepare. Cosmetic changes, he can make at will with minimal effort. Examples include changing his voice or appearance, teleporting small items over short distances, and disrupting various kinds of technology, from smart phones to handcuff locks. Levitation requires intense concentration and some short preparatory rituals. Teleporting himself or other massive objects is within his power, but can take weeks of attuning himself, and doesn't always work.
    
  • Visionary trances:
    Lars can induce trances at will in himself or occasionally willing recipients, but he has little to no control over what, if anything, the trance will reveal. Sometimes he catches glimpses of the past, sometimes the future. One infamous murder case, he swears he cracked with key information from thevictim. While Captain Blanco doesn't exactly believe him,she does not have a better theory. Sometimes hidden information springs unbidden to his mind without the trance, secret things that he could not possibly have any way to know. He calls this'peeking behind the veil'. AEGIS scientists suspect a subconscious low level telepathy operating at an intuitive pre-verbal level, but attempts to isolate it in the lab have been inconclusive.
    
  • Technological Enhancements:
    By combining his natural powers with state of the art holography and electromagnetic fields, he can create fantastic VR projections, which he has been using for pure entertainment purposes. Now he has turned his eye towards practical combat training. Setting up an interactive hologram requires a lot of precision photography of the space, a fair bit of creative coding, and a healthy sprinkling of his particular A6G23 variety of 'fairy dust' as well as substantial electrical power to make them semi-tangible.
    
  
  
  Limitations
  
  
  • No, your mind doesn't make it real: His illusions cannot directly cause harm, nor can his little bendings of the rules of reality
    
  • Technology is finicky: It can take weeks or even months to set up a properly interactive VR program which would adapt to its participants reactions on the fly. A simple obstacle course with simple mechanically triggered traps could be done in perhaps as little as a day, as could an image that only needs to be viewed from limited perspective, with a simple script. Remotely controlled images are possible, but delays may be noticeable.
    
  • Story is hard to rewrite, but a shift of perspective can flip the meaning: Illusions are relatively easy, since they only bend perceptions. Actually changingthe underlying physical reality is hard. Making substantial changes to the physical world is limited to one or two times a month, but is virtually unlimited for mere cosmetic variations.
    
  • Story is king; abuse your plot devices and they'll abuse you!Dealing with the spirt world, delving into the past and the future, or similar fifth dimensional investigations are goddamned exhausting, and he won't do it without a really compelling reason, like express requests from a certified game-master and/or as a result of persistent wheedling of said game-masters by his writer/producer, Gus.
    
  
  
  

 

[Aldur]

I'm sorry for Lucas, Gus. I hope there's a Heaven for supers like him. Although that would be a question for welian.

 

[welian]

If you follow Raguel, Lucas is headed straight for Hell, with the rest of his demon bretheren. Which, depending on your point of view, may be Heaven.

 

[Gus]

If you follow Raguel, Lucas is headed straight for Hell, with the rest of his demon bretheren. Which, depending on your point of view, may be Heaven.

All the coolest most interesting people will be in hell.


Also, demon or not, Lucas swore like a sailor, he just did it in French.


Also, also, french canadian profanity is very specifically sacrilegious.


Sac a papier!

 

[lazee]

I miss all the good chat moments.

 

[Gus]

Where is all the action at? Post interesting things! I am reduced to doing housework over here! That's not right! I want to swim in a sea of fantastical escapism while my house slowly returns to its natural state of pure entropy!


Also! Feeeeeedback, Seymour!


Captain feedback wants to crowdsource the new guy! What's confusing? What is good? What is anathema? What should be added that I can't believe I missed?!


Where IS everybody?!


Except Welian. She said where she was going.


And Lucas. She said where he was going too.


Oooooooh, burn.

 

[Lemon Boy]

Blargh, I'll try to give some feedback on him soon!~


Waiting for other's to post and working on my own Fucked up, Gritty, Grimdark, Horror Rp.

 

[lazee]

I'm working on a Minah post atm. Expect Vietnam Aceh flashbacks and S A D B I R D S

 

[Gus]

[QUOTE="Lazy Rocktime]I'm working on a Minah post atm. Expect Vietnam Aceh flashbacks and S A D B I R D S

[/QUOTE]
MOAR BIRDS?! NOOOOOOO!


Sorry, Lucas had Zoo flashback.

 

[Lemon Boy]

Noticed just how quiet it is since Gus said so.


AWAKEN FOOLS OR RAGUEL SHALL BURN YOU.

 

[Aldur]

[QUOTE="St Indigo]Noticed just how quiet it is since Gus said so.
AWAKEN FOOLS OR RAGUEL SHALL BURN YOU.

[/QUOTE]
I don't take orders from bigots!

 

[Gus]

I don't take orders from bigots!

Don't do it for the zealots. Do it for Lucas.