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OOC: Character Connections.

Posted by Immortal EyeFor group 0
Immortal Eye
GM, 10 posts
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 16:03
  • msg #1

OOC: Character Connections

This thread can be used to flesh out connections for Descriptor, Type, Focus, and interesting bits of backstory, as needed.

I'm not going to require that each of the suggested connections be identified and filled.  Just use them as appropriate for the character, when possible.
Artor
player, 2 posts
Jack who Delved Too Deep
Greythane
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 22:39
  • msg #2

OOC: Character Connections

Artor is a a Jack who Delved Too Deeply, with the following options open for connection:

quote:
Connection: Choose one of the following.
1. Pick one other PC. This character knows a little something about void matter, or at least claimed to at one time.
2. Pick one other PC. You are friends, and you’d hate to see this character harmed.
3. Pick one other PC. They don’t understand the danger your void matter represents.
4. Pick one other PC. They were exposed to void matter, the same as you, but didn’t become infused with it. You think they might be immune.

Agatho
player, 2 posts
EmpathicNanoWorksMiracles
"MyWordsShallNotPassAway"
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 22:49
  • msg #3

OOC: Character Connections

I'm game for taking Artor's #2 option, if he are so inclined...  :)

Meanwhile, here are a couple of available Agatho options for any interested parties:

EMPATHIC Initial Link: You established a close bond with another PC and can’t bear to be parted from him or her.

WORKS MIRACLES Connection: Pick one other PC. This character believes that you cured someone close to them of a deadly disease, and they are grateful. You aren’t sure whether you actually helped or if that person wasn’t as sick as was thought.
Derrick
player, 2 posts
Protective Glaive
who Absorbs Energy
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 22:59
  • msg #4

OOC: Character Connections

So I'd actually to use the Initial Link from a different descriptor:

  • One of the PCs is your sibling, and you came along to watch out for them.


Agatho, if I'm getting the vibe of your character correctly, I think it would make a lot of sense if Derrick were your (much) younger sibling. I see Derrick as a very devout person routed in tradition and devoted to a code.
Radwa
player, 5 posts
Numenera Wright
They/them/their
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:00
  • msg #5

Re: OOC: Character Connections

Artor:
1. Pick one other PC. This character knows a little something about void matter, or at least claimed to at one time.


That would absolutely be Radwa - between their books, their prior studies, and their parents' tutelage, Radwa would know or have access to some knowledge about void matter, scant as it might be.

Radwa's on the expedition (or hoping to be) because they want to explore and to eventually put their education to the test by helping to build a community. As for what the book says Radwa might have available for them:

Builds Tomorrow Focus:
1. Pick one other PC. This character seems able to use all the objects and structures you craft with ease, even when you hide how to access certain functions.
2. Pick one other PC. This character knows a few things that can help when the objects or structures you crafted need repair.
3. Pick one other PC. This character has a special tool that you think would be perfect for your own set, but they regard it as a keepsake or are otherwise reluctant to give it up, even though they don’t seem to know what it’s good for.
4. Pick one other PC. When you were developing a plan from a seed of knowledge from the prior worlds, this character was burned in an unexpected incident. They still
have a small scar.


Otherwise, Radwa grew up in the Steadfast (Navarene, specifically), and ended up on the other side of the Black Riage for reasons they're not up to talking about right now. They spent a year or two in Beanstalk before hearing the call for explorers and making their way up to Canthus, where they're currently trying to put together a transport wagon for the expedition.
Derrick
player, 3 posts
Protective Glaive
who Absorbs Energy
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:03
  • msg #6

Re: OOC: Character Connections

Radwa:
3. Pick one other PC. This character has a special tool that you think would be perfect for your own set, but they regard it as a keepsake or are otherwise reluctant to give it up, even though they don’t seem to know what it’s good for.


Personally I think it would be really funny if Derrick's mace were some sort of precision machined component that he just uses to smash things.
Immortal Eye
GM, 12 posts
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:07
  • msg #7

Re: OOC: Character Connections

That would be hilarious, and require no prior contact to pull off.
Radwa
player, 7 posts
Numenera Wright
They/them/their
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:07
  • msg #8

Re: OOC: Character Connections

In reply to Derrick (msg # 6):

That would be hilarious. I can hear Radwa making concerned/distressed noises every time Derrick hit something with the mace.
Artor
player, 4 posts
Jack who Delved Too Deep
Greythane
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:11
  • msg #9

Re: OOC: Character Connections

Agatho:
Pick one other PC. This character believes that you cured someone close to them of a deadly disease, and they are grateful. You aren’t sure whether you actually helped or if that person wasn’t as sick as was thought.


Could I take this instead, Agatho?

Radwa:
quote:
Pick one other PC. This character knows a little something about void matter, or at least claimed to at one time.


That would absolutely be Radwa - between their books, their prior studies, and their parents' tutelage, Radwa would know or have access to some knowledge about void matter, scant as it might be.


Let's work with this; from the sounds of things, you may have passed through Stirthal on the way to the Black Riage
Agatho
player, 3 posts
EmpathicNanoWorksMiracles
"MyWordsShallNotPassAway"
Sun 9 Jun 2019
at 23:12
  • msg #10

Re: OOC: Character Connections

Derrick:
So I'd actually to use the Initial Link from a different descriptor:

  • One of the PCs is your sibling, and you came along to watch out for them.


Agatho, if I'm getting the vibe of your character correctly, I think it would make a lot of sense if Derrick were your (much) younger sibling. I see Derrick as a very devout person routed in tradition and devoted to a code.

Agatho's Background:
Agatho is a native of Hayrest.  His parents perished before he was old enough to remember them, and he was taken in by an orphanage run by the Church of the Sovereign One.  Recognizing his psionic gifts, they provided training from an early age.

His faith is based strongly on a rare surviving echo of Calvinism, including a vague distrust of those associated with a Pope.  The Sovereign One created all, and rules over all.  All proceeds according to The Plan, yet all answer for their choices in The Plan.

Motivations include serving the Sovereign One, serving and healing those around him, exploring the world around him, learning tidbits about the past, and acquiring interesting abilities/technologies/etc.

The Church possesses an ancient artifact that is able to telepathically transmit their ancient records, including their Sacred Scriptures, as if someone was reading them aloud, and they are comprehensibly perceived in the mind of the listener regardless of any language barriers.  Thus, their writings have survived, preserved even through the passage of time and changes of tongue.

As part of each member's training, they create their own book, writing their own copy of the ancient records as telepathically dictated.  Agatho has his own copy, which is his most treasured possession.

Members spend periods of time alternating between serving in Hayrest and sojourning elsewhere to serve the physical and spiritual needs of a lost world.  Agatho is currently sojourning.

Agatho probably has a somewhat similar vibe to Shepherd Book (Firefly), Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars IV), etc.

If Derrick wants to be a follower of the Sovereign One from Hayrest as well, that could kind of work, but Agatho's parents died early on, so a much younger sibling would be tricky.  Perhaps an "adopted" sibling, brothers in the faith?

Your feedback is welcome...  :)
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